On Freedom Catherine D. Hughes a sense of rapture

a sense of rapture

A trenchant social novel from an award-winning author

The tavern is the only place that Kostas

and to consumers of sociology and history

his ailing grandmother

On Freedom Catherine D. Hughes a sense of raptureSo 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