James, Susan. “Power and Difference: Spinoza’s Conception of Freedom.” Journal of Political Philosophy 4, no. 3 (1996): 207–228. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9760.1996.tb00050.x.
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“During the last two decades, an established though contested alliance between liberty and equality has been profoundly challenged by reassessments of the view that, when States impose the same rights and obligations on all their citizens, they create equally-distributed individual liberties. A number of influential studies have shown how the formation of a political sphere, defined by a set of specified claims, privileges and procedures, serves to exclude as politically irrelevant many differences between people which bear on their freedom. While some citizens find it comparatively easy and advantageous to live the division thereby created between their political and private selves, it is for others a lie, a frustration, or a dimly-acknowleged lack. Because the line between the political and non-political, like the domains on either side of it, fails to answer to their self-understandings, freedoms central to the expression of their identities go unrecognised and unprotected.”
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