Rethinking Freedom Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done to Save It
Description
This book is aimed at those who are puzzled by the different ways in which the term "freedom" is used and abused. Based on interviews with people concerning the nature of freedom, the author compares what the people he talked with said about freedom with what Jean-Paul Sartre, Herbert Marcuse, and Iris Murdoch have to say about freedom. He concludes that the people he talked with about freedom constitute a "culture on the borderline" whose proponents are better served by learning the political and social skills necessary to carve out small spaces of freedom in a rationalized world.
Keywords
Political ScienceHistory & Theory
2005Book
Author(s)Fred Alford
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781403968340
LanguageEnglish
