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Rethinking Freedom : Why Freedom Has Lost Its Meaning and What Can Be Done to Save It / by C. Alford.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Alford, C. Fred.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- World politics.
- Political Theory.
- Political Philosophy.
- Social Philosophy.
- Political Science.
- Political History.
- Local Subjects:
- Political Theory.
- Political Philosophy.
- Social Philosophy.
- Political Science.
- Political History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (180 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2005.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Ch. 1. Freedom or power?
- Ch. 2. Borderlines of freedom
- Ch. 3. Bad faith?
- Ch. 4. Mastery and respite
- Ch. 5. Freedom is seeing reality clearly
- Ch. 6. Transgression with others
- Ch. 7. Aristocrats of freedom.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [151]-157) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611364205
- 9781281364203
- 1281364207
- 9781403978783
- 1403978786
- OCLC:
- 560189333
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