The Illusion of Freedom
Title | The Illusion of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Gallagher |
Publisher | Hurst & Company |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN |
Alex Salmond's Scottish National Party wants Scotland to cease being the invisible country of Europe and to embrace independence. This book argues that if the British Union is demolished, change will remain elusive and Scotland will continue to be run by the close-knit administrative, commercial and religious elites who have dominated the country.
The Illusion of Freedom and Equality
Title | The Illusion of Freedom and Equality PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Stivers |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 138 |
Release | 2009-01-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791475126 |
Explores how Enlightenment values have been transformed in a technological civilization.
Freedom from an Illusion of Freedom
Title | Freedom from an Illusion of Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Lemon |
Publisher | Xlibris Corporation |
Total Pages | 294 |
Release | 2012-04-25 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 1483644499 |
First let me mention that the main characters in the book are the readers and the readers are the audience too. Find out how and what character describes you best throughout the novel. Fear is one of the main forces that create this illusion of freedom. "Just because you are scared does not mean you are entitled to back down," (Lemon). Believing the belief that you are free is the very belief that creates this illusion. Then this belief traps you within an illusion of freedom and is the very belief that prevents you from realizing you are not free by any means of what you thought freedom was and what freedom really is. You believing that belief is what prevent you from discovering, seeing, understanding and experiencing what true freedom is and means. My book is a manuscript that offers the following: internal psychology, optimistic/positive psychology, reflective psychology, self-improvement psychology, self-knowledge psychology, therapy, spirituality, sociology, philosophy, workology, streetology, survivology (higher survival awareness /teens and adults), better relationship awareness (work, couples, or in general) and is a parental guide. This is not a conspiracy theory novel nor is it fiction. It is real events and real experiences anyone can experience. This book is a self-improvement; self-developmental novel that shows people how to find and bring out their deep rooted power, true freedom, and potential of which they never knew existed or never knew how to bring out.
Illusions of Emancipation
Title | Illusions of Emancipation PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph P. Reidy |
Publisher | UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | 519 |
Release | 2019-01-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1469648377 |
As students of the Civil War have long known, emancipation was not merely a product of Lincoln's proclamation or of Confederate defeat in April 1865. It was a process that required more than legal or military action. With enslaved people fully engaged as actors, emancipation necessitated a fundamental reordering of a way of life whose implications stretched well beyond the former slave states. Slavery did not die quietly or quickly, nor did freedom fulfill every dream of the enslaved or their allies. The process unfolded unevenly. In this sweeping reappraisal of slavery's end during the Civil War era, Joseph P. Reidy employs the lenses of time, space, and individuals' sense of personal and social belonging to understand how participants and witnesses coped with drastic change, its erratic pace, and its unforeseeable consequences. Emancipation disrupted everyday habits, causing sensations of disorientation that sometimes intensified the experience of reality and sometimes muddled it. While these illusions of emancipation often mixed disappointment with hope, through periods of even intense frustration they sustained the promise that the struggle for freedom would result in victory.
The Illusion of Freedom and Equality
Title | The Illusion of Freedom and Equality PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Stivers |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 2008-07-16 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0791478033 |
Explores how Enlightenment values have been transformed in a technological civilization.
The Illusion of Free Markets
Title | The Illusion of Free Markets PDF eBook |
Author | Bernard E. Harcourt |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 337 |
Release | 2012-11-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0674971329 |
It is widely believed today that the free market is the best mechanism ever invented to efficiently allocate resources in society. Just as fundamental as faith in the free market is the belief that government has a legitimate and competent role in policing and the punishment arena. This curious incendiary combination of free market efficiency and the Big Brother state has become seemingly obvious, but it hinges on the illusion of a supposedly natural order in the economic realm. The Illusion of Free Markets argues that our faith in “free markets” has severely distorted American politics and punishment practices. Bernard Harcourt traces the birth of the idea of natural order to eighteenth-century economic thought and reveals its gradual evolution through the Chicago School of economics and ultimately into today’s myth of the free market. The modern category of “liberty” emerged in reaction to an earlier, integrated vision of punishment and public economy, known in the eighteenth century as “police.” This development shaped the dominant belief today that competitive markets are inherently efficient and should be sharply demarcated from a government-run penal sphere. This modern vision rests on a simple but devastating illusion. Superimposing the political categories of “freedom” or “discipline” on forms of market organization has the unfortunate effect of obscuring rather than enlightening. It obscures by making both the free market and the prison system seem natural and necessary. In the process, it facilitated the birth of the penitentiary system in the nineteenth century and its ultimate culmination into mass incarceration today.
The Illusion of the Free Press
Title | The Illusion of the Free Press PDF eBook |
Author | John Charney |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 330 |
Release | 2018-01-11 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 1509908889 |
This book explores the relationship between truth and freedom in the free press. It argues that the relationship is problematic because the free press implies a competition between plural ideas, whereas truth is univocal. Based on this tension the book claims that the idea of a free press is premised on an epistemological illusion. This illusion enables society to maintain that the world it perceives through the press corresponds to the world as it actually exists, explaining why defenders of the free press continue to rely on its capacity to discover the truth, despite economic conditions and technological innovations undermining much of its independence. The book invites the reader to reconsider the philosophical foundations, constitutional justifications, and structure and functions of the free press, and whether the institution can, in fact, realise both freedom and truth. It will be of great interest to anyone concerned in the role and value of the free press in the modern world.