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Find more info., search and price compare for Burning All Illusions : A Guide to Personal and Political Freedom by David Edwards Binding: Paperback, 246 pages Publisher: South End Press Weight: 0.8 pound Dimension: H: 0.73 x L: 8.48 x W: 5.42 inches ISBN 10: 0896085317 ISBN 13: 9780896085312 Click here to search for this book and compare price at 40+ bookstores with AddALL.com! If you cannot find this book in our new and in print search, be sure to try our used and out of print search too! |
Book Description: 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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