On Freedom (2/5)
My new book, forthcoming 17 September
My new book On Freedom works forward from a philosophy of freedom to a proposal for government and a description of a brighter future. The subjects below — the titles of the first fifty-four of the book’s 135 vignettes — are a preview of its contents. I’ll publish the rest of the vignette titles in three further posts.
Jubilee • Flight • Holocausts • Bells • Equilibrium • Exceptionalism • Oligarchy • Staying • Leib • Life • Neighbor • Mystery • Stadium • Death • Race • Happiness • Health • Catching • Pitching • Breathing • Recognizing • Acknowledging • Seeing • Swimming • Contract • Contact • Loan • Opening • Improbable States • Declarations and Accommodations • Entropy and Gravity • Our Machines • Our Cosmonauts • Human Rights • Plastic People • Normal Dissidents • Emancipation • Glass Cane • Servant • Biography • Maidan • Confinement • Celly • Lost Time • Regained Time • Inhuman Barriers • Rationalizing Zombies • Brain Hacks • Experimental Isolation • Icy Tumult • Led Leaderless • Self-Built Cages • Radical Tradition • Wolf’s Word
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
Ruth Windle
Thank you for this, Professor Snyder. I am looking forward to reading it. I also want to thank you for your recent lecture ‘The Perils of Slowness’. It was entirely apropos and gave me much food for thought, as did your testimony to Congress around China, Russia and Disinformation. One of the things I feel I can do is listen out for disinformation in conversations and do what I can to refute it and suggest its sources. Personal conversations open up the possibility of changes in people’s perceptions and awareness of the facts - ripples in the pond that hopefully have wider effects.
The Ukraine aid bill -- what a profound relief. I still don't get MMJ's about face, but we got there.