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What it means for humans to be free and what the requirements of a free society are the questions that motivate Continental political thought. Topics include: what it means for humans to live freely; the nature of reason and language; the relationship between politics, reason and culture; the political effects of language and technology; and the competing models of political freedom that result. 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