On Freedom: Four Songs of Care and Constraint

by Maggie Nelson

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644450623
• ISBN13: 9781644450628
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Graywolf Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.1"