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Creolizing Practices of Freedom Recognition and Dissonance


Free Download Michael Monahan, "Creolizing Practices of Freedom: Recognition and Dissonance "
English | ISBN: 1538174618 | 2022 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 306 KB + 1174 KB
Creolizing Practices of Freedom argues that many of our long-standing debates over the concept of freedom have been bound up in the politics of purity-explicitly or implicitly insisting on clear and distinct boundaries between self and other or between choice and coercion. In this model, freedom becomes a matter of purifying the self at the individual level and the body politic at the larger social level. The appropriate response to this is a creolizing theory of freedom, an approach that sees indeterminacy and ambiguity not as tragic flaws, but as crucial productive elements of the practice of freedom.

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