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Creating Freedom
Raoul Martinez
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Description for Creating Freedom
Paperback. Philosopher, artist and award-winning film-maker Raoul Martinez's radical, revolutionary and highly provocative rethink of freedom Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: JPVH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338.
We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undemocratic power, he shows that our faith in free media, free markets, free elections and free will is dangerously misplaced. Written with empathy and imagination, this scholarly, fierce and profoundly hopeful manifesto makes a dazzling case for creating freedom on our own terms.
We are far less free than we like to think. In Creating Freedom, Raoul Martinez exposes the mechanisms of control that pervade our lives and the myths on which they depend. Exploring the lottery of our birth, the coercive influence of concentrated wealth, and the consent-manufacturing realities of undemocratic power, he shows that our faith in free media, free markets, free elections and free will is dangerously misplaced. Written with empathy and imagination, this scholarly, fierce and profoundly hopeful manifesto makes a dazzling case for creating freedom on our own terms.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782111887
SKU
V9781782111887
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About Raoul Martinez
Raoul Martinez is a philosopher, artist, and award-winning filmmaker. Creating Freedom is his first book. It is informed by over a decade of research and is accompanied by a documentary series of the same name. Episode One, The Lottery of Birth - produced, written and co-directed by Raoul - premiered in 2012. It was nominated for Best Documentary at London's ... Read more
Reviews for Creating Freedom
Creating Freedom is quite magnificent in its intelligence, acuity, scope, human warmth and - most importantly - hope! My book of the year
STEPHEN FRY What makes it exceptional is its sophisticated philosophical argument. . . This year's essential text for thinking radicals
STEWART JEFFRIES
Guardian
Strong arguments . . . epic ... Read more
STEPHEN FRY What makes it exceptional is its sophisticated philosophical argument. . . This year's essential text for thinking radicals
STEWART JEFFRIES
Guardian
Strong arguments . . . epic ... Read more