The Subject of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subject of Liberty write by Nancy J. Hirschmann. This book was released on 2009-01-10. The Subject of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.
The Narrow Corridor
The Narrow Corridor - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Narrow Corridor write by Daron Acemoglu. This book was released on 2019. The Narrow Corridor available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How does history end? -- The Red Queen -- Will to power -- Economics outside the corridor -- Allegory of good government -- The European scissors -- Mandate of Heaven -- Broken Red Queen -- Devil in the details -- What's the matter with Ferguson? -- The paper leviathan -- Wahhab's children -- Red Queen out of control -- Into the corridor -- Living with the leviathan.
Toward Liberty
Toward Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward Liberty write by Friedrich August Hayek. This book was released on 1973. Toward Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Last Call for Liberty
Last Call for Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Last Call for Liberty write by Os Guinness. This book was released on 2018-10-02. Last Call for Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Will conflicts, hostility, and incivility tear the country apart? Os Guinness provides a careful observation of the American experiment, offering a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.
The Freedom to Read
The Freedom to Read - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Freedom to Read write by American Library Association. This book was released on 1953. The Freedom to Read available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
