On Freedom (3/5)
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 eighty-one of the book’s 135 vignettes — are a preview of its contents. I’ll publish the rest of the vignette titles in two further posts on coming Wednesdays.
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 • Life’s Arc • Can You Imagine? • Freedom Ride • Public Trauma • Three Dimensions • Stalin’s Future • Among Empires • Closed Frontier • Social Mobility • Middle Class • Mass Incarceration • Big Zone • Racial Unfreedom • Immobilization Politics • Russian Guest • Convergent Stagnation • Roads and Tracks • Sadopopulism • Time Warps • One Percent of One Percent • Unspeakable Wealth • Eternity Politics • Ecological War • Responsibility Politics • Living Truth • Suns • Fusion
Please share with anyone who might be interested!
I’ve ordered! This needs to be read by ALL! I will be buying multiple copies and passing them out. I did that with “On Tyranny” and kept them in my car, my purse, and gave them to not only friends and family, but folks in the grocery line.
Thank you Professor Snyder for inspiring all to be involved and encouraging me to be a voice for freedom.
Is anyone else worried about how the events in Gaza reflect on the idea of freedom? What does freedom mean, when its self-identified defenders let thousands of children be shot, shelled, bombed and starved to death? I'm asking as a pediatrician, who grieves equally for every single child killed by Hamas, and for *all* children whose parents or grandparents were killed or are in peril.