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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, 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 ar

Who reads On Freedom : Four Songs of Care and Constraint?

Author

Maggie Nelson, Damián Alou

Publisher

Graywolf Press

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9781644450628

Category

history

Subjects

Sociology, History, History & Criticism

Rating

4.5 / 5 (103 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14