124 Pages
by
Routledge
124 Pages
by
Routledge
The second edition of Freedom recovers the concept as a fundamental aspect of modern Western ideas and explores its history and how controversial its meaning can be. To what extent does freedom have a ‘social’ component, and how is it being reshaped by our dominant consumer society?
Today, the West sees itself as having a crucial role to play in exporting freedom into the far regions of the... Read more
1. Freedom: Just Another Word?
2. Civic Freedom
3. Big Brother and Freedom
4. Democratic Socialism and Freedom
5. Cosmopolitan Freedom and National Citizenship
6. Freedom’s Futures
Biography
Nick Stevenson is a Reader in Cultural Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He has written widely on questions of culture and politics. His published books include Class (2023) and Human Rights and the Reinvention of Freedom (2017).
