On Freedom
Book description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A brilliant exploration of freedom—what it is, how it’s been misunderstood, and why it’s our only chance for survival—by the acclaimed Yale historian and author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Tyranny
“A rigorous and visionary argument . . . Buy or borrow…
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1 author picked On Freedom as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book by our greatest historian of some of the worst moments of the twentieth century, who is a powerful voice for freedom in the twenty-first.
In accessible language, Snyder translates the abstract ideal of freedom into more concrete goals of individual sovereignty, unpredictability, mobility, factuality, and solidarity. He argues with particular clarity that even the best-designed constitutions and institutions depend upon the goodwill of the human beings who inhabit and operate them.
Snyder offers us new and clear ways to think about the goals of genuine democracy.
From Paul's list on freedom in theory and practice.
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