Nelson Maggie - On Freedom Four Songs Of Care And Constraint - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: Named a Most Anticipated/ Best Book of the Month by: NPR * US a Today * Time * Washington Post * Vulture * Women's Wear Daily * Bustle * Lit Hub * The Millions * Vogue * Nylon * Shondaland * Chicago Review of Books * The Guardian * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Publishers Weekly So often deployed as a jingoistic even menacing rallying cry or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy justice and well - being or is freedom's long star turn coming to a close? Does a continued obsession with the term enliven and emancipate or reflect a deepening nihilism (or both)? On Freedom examines such questions by tracing the concept's complexities in four distinct realms: art sex drugs and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life Maggie Nelson explores how we might think experience or talk about freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing practices of freedom by which we negotiate our interrelation with indeed our inseparability from others with all the care and constraint that entails while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion. For Nelson thinking publicly through the knots in our culture from recent art - world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis is itself a practice of freedom a means of forging fortitude courage and company. On Freedom is an invigorating essential book for challenging times.
Title: On Freedom Four Songs Of Care And Constraint
Author(s): Nelson Maggie
Publisher: Graywolf Press
Barcode: 9781644450628
Pages: 288 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/7/2021
Category: Literary Essays