This book examines the use and abuse of the term ‘freedom’. Based on interviews with people concerning the nature of freedom, the author compares what the people he talked with said about freedom with what writers and thinkers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Marcuse, and Iris Murdoch have to say about freedom. He concludes that the ‘political’ is not the answer, and that most of the people interviewed for the book and those like them would be better served by learning the political and social skills necessary to carve out small spaces of freedom in a rationalized world.
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Freedom or Power? Borderlines of Freedom Bad Faith? Mastery and Respite Freedom is Seeing Reality Clearly Transgression with Others Aristocrats of FreedomAbout the author
C. Fred Alford is Professor of Government at University of Maryland, College Park, USA.
Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 169 ● ISBN 9781403978783 ● File size 0.9 MB ● Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US ● City New York ● Country US ● Published 2005 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 2366825 ● Copy protection Social DRM