Noncoercive threats to academic, political, and economic freedom. edited by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. Cole

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bilgrami, Akeel., editor.

Cole, Jonathan R., editor.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (538 pages)

Edition:

1st edition

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book brings together a distinguished set of scholars to examine covert constraints on academic, political, and economic freedom from a variety of angles, developing surprising and timely new insights.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Editors Introduction / Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan R. Cole

PART I. PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES

1. Why Freedom to Say Enlarges Freedom to Think / David Bromwich

2. Kant and Cant: Practical Necessity and the Diminution of Options / Jeremy Waldron

3. Freedom and Unfreedom in Human Categories: The Case of Multiplicity / Carol Rovane

PART II. POLITICAL ECONOMY

4. Freedom and Coercion, Opportunity and the Economy: Neoliberalism, the Individual, and Society / Joseph E. Stiglitz

5. Capitalism and the Question of Freedom / Prabhat Patnaik

6. Whither Economic Rights? / Akeel Bilgrami

PART III. SOCIETY AND LAW

7. Roe v. Wade: Freedom of the Woman Versus Freedom of the Fetus / Geoffrey R. Stone

8. Freedom and Coercion in Public Health / Robert Klitzman

9. The Prosecution of Gender Equal Abrahamic Circumcision: Implications for Jews and Muslims / Richard A. Shweder

PART IV. RACE

10. Freedom in the American Century and After / Eric Foner

11. Freedom Through Unfreedom: W. E. B. Du Boiss Theory of Democratic Despotism / Robert Gooding- Williams

12. The Denial of Freedom and Punitive Excess / Bruce Western, Jessica T. Simes

PART V. THE ACADEMY

13. The University in a Time of Crisis / Noam Chomsky

14. Persuasion, Manipulation, and Unfreedom / Michael Ignatieff

15. Ridicule and Argument / Jon Elster

16. Is Wokeism Changing the Nature of Inquiry? / Akeel Bilgrami

17. A Confederacy of Snitches / Laura Kipnis

18. Freedom Gained and Freedom Lost in American Science / Jonathan R. Cole, Daria Franklin

PART VI. MEDIA

19. Evaluating the Fake News Problem at the Scale of the Information Ecosystem / Jennifer Allen, Baird Howland, Markus Mobius, David Rothschild, Duncan J. Watts

20. Measuring the News and Its Impact on Democracy / Duncan J. Watts, David M. Rothschild, Markus Mobius

21. Clyde Miller and the Institute for Propaganda Analysis: Fighting Disinformation in the 1930s / Anya Schiffrin

Notes

Contributors

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-231-56234-9

9780231562348

OCLC:

1528566263