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Title What is freedom? : conversations with historians, philosophers, and activists / edited by Toby Buckle
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]
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Description 1 online resource (ix, 213 pages)
Contents Introduction -- History -- Ancient Slavery and the Creation of Freedom -- Slavery, Freedom, and Christianity -- Freedom in the Liberal Tradition -- Philosophy -- Feminism and Freedom -- The Liberty Principle -- Freedom as Non-Domination -- Freedom in the Workplace -- Activism -- LGBT Liberation -- Windrush, Racism, and Freedom -- Defending EU Liberalism -- Civil Rights -- Activism -- Political Corruption and Citizenship
Summary "This work is a collection of interviews on the topic of freedom from many of the world's leading academic thinkers on the subject, as well as highly influential activists. The book contains 12 interviews and an introduction. The interviews are presented in a simple readable format intended for a general audience, each with a short introduction and suggested reading. The interviews are split into three sections; history, philosophy, and activism, covering what freedom has meant, how it can de defined, and what work it does in real world political contestation respectively. One central themes of the work are how freedom's meaning has changed and evolved over time and been contested both between and within political traditions. The book also explores contemporary alternatives to individual negative liberty, and considers freedom as a possible ideal to which activists can appeal. A final issue many of the interviews touch on is how different conceptions of freedom relate to different ideas about human nature and our relationship with history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed June 2, 2022)
Subject Liberty.
freedom.
Liberty
Form Electronic book
Author Buckle, Toby, editor.
LC no. 2021016429
ISBN 0197572235
9780197572252
0197572251
9780197572245
0197572243
9780197572238