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Rethinking Freedom: Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done to Save It

By C. Fred Alford (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2005
ISBN
978-1-4039-6872-2, 978-1-4039-7878-3
DOI
10.1057/9781403978783
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
785 kB (804072 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
IX, 169\175
Time added
2016-03-14 21:35:01
Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Social Phi

Description

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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