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On Freedom audiobook

  • By: Maggie Nelson
  • Narrator: Gabra Zackman
  • Category: Essays, Literary Collections
  • Length: 6 hours 45 minutes
  • Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
  • Publish date: January 01, 2021
  • Language: English
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On Freedom Audiobook Summary

An expansive, exhilarating work of criticism by one of the most significant writers of our day.

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, 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 relation 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.

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Narrator Gabra Zackman
Length 6 hours 45 minutes
Author Maggie Nelson
Category
Publisher Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
Release date April 27, 2024
ISBN 9780593459560

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The publisher of the On Freedom is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: liberation, environmentally friendly, climate change, addiction, drugs, drug, sex books, sex, sex book, art book, art books, art, freedom, politics, political books, philosophy, social science, maggie nelson, essays, sociology, essay, political science, political philosophy, short stories, philosophy books, artists, government, sociology books, geopolitics, history, history books, artwork, book lovers gifts, book lovers, long story short, gifts for readers, book gifts, book lover, book lover gifts, essay writing, Literary Collections, Essays, Philosophy, Criticism, Art, Criticism & Theory The BISAC Subject Code is Essays, Literary Collections

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The publisher of the On Freedom is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593459560.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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