Fear of Freedom: With the Essay "Fear of Painting"

by Carlo Levi

Book Overview

Carlo Levi was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family, and his political activism forced him into exile for most of the Second World War. While in exile, he wrote Christ Stopped at Eboli, a memoir, and Fear of Freedom, a philosophical meditation on humanity's flight from moral and spiritual autonomy and our resulting loss of self and creativity. Brooding on what surely appeared to be the decline, if not the fall...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231139977
• ISBN13: 9780231139977
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.7" x 8.3"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher