<strong>Public Freedom</strong> breaks new ground. Villas stance is distinctive andcompelling. He writes with confidence and authority. The book is full ofsubtl... » 

Public Freedom breaks new ground. Villas stance is distinctive andcompelling. He writes with confidence and authority. The book is full ofsubtle important and in some cases controversial readings of major thinkersand represents a significant move forward in Villas own thinking placing himinto conversation with some unexpected intellectual traditions and alsodisclosing some revisions to his own earlier positions. Public Freedom is animpressive and successful piece of work.Patchen Markell University ofChicago A significant contribution to the field of political theory. PublicFreedom is a wideranging and thoughtprovoking inquiry into the problem ofcivic life as viewed by a group of important nineteenth and twentiethcenturypolitical theorists. With its reconsideration of the relationship betweenpublic freedom and civil society the book has done something new and it shouldgain a good deal of attention.James Schmidt Boston University «