Burning All Illusions: A Guide to Personal and Political Freedom - Hardcover

Edwards, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0896085325 ISBN 13: 9780896085329

Verlag: South End Pr, 1996

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This is a book about freedom. Above all about the idea that there is often no greater obstacle to freedom than the assumption that it has already been attained. What prison, after all, could be more secure than that deemed to be "the world," where boundaries of action and thought are assumed to define not the limits of the permissible, but the limits of the possible.

In the past we have been prisoners of tyrants and dictators, and consequently have needed to win our freedom in very concrete, physical terms. We now need to free ourselves not from a slave ship or a concentration camp, but from many of the illusions fostered in our democratic society.

"[A] wise and acute analysis of the way our minds are controlled, not in a totalitarian state, but in a 'democratic' one. Edwards also suggests how we can escape this control in a self-help book which, unlike other books of this genre, connects our inner world of alienation with the world outside."--Howard Zinn

"[A] treatise on what freedom truly means.... Burning All Illusions is an important philosophical and psychology text that should be on every political science curriculum reading list!"--Wisconsin Book Watch

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• Verlag: South End Pr
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0896085325
• ISBN 13: 9780896085329
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246