Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Av Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan R. Cole, Jonathan R. (John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University) Cole

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States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which authorities and cultural forces compromise the choices of individuals in ways that do not seem, at first glance, to be coercive. This book brings together a distinguished set of scholars to examine covert constraints on academic, political, and economic freedom from a variety of angles, developing surprising and timely new insights.Ranging across philosophy, economics, law, health, science, art, and the media, luminaries from different fields expose threats to freedom within avowedly liberal and democratic institutions and cultures. Their incisive essays, both analytical and historical, emphasize how economic inequality, academic orthodoxy, media control, racism, and gender roles undermine the potential for human flourishing. By considering such multifarious noncoercive threats, they illuminate the vexed notion of freedom. Lively and learned, this book offers a provocative and urgent understanding of the often-unacknowledged forces that restrict our choices.Contributors include David Bromwich, Eric Foner, Robert Gooding-Williams, Michael Ignatieff, Laura Kipnis, Anya Schiffrin, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Geoffrey R. Stone. In an essay and an interview with the volume editors, Noam Chomsky addresses the neoliberal assault on academic freedom.

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Utgivningsdatum2025-12-02
Mått156 x 235 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor472
FörlagColumbia University Press
ISBN9780231218559

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Editors’ Introduction, by Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan R. ColePart I. Philosophical Issues1. Why Freedom to Say Enlarges Freedom to Think, by David Bromwich2. Kant and “Can’t”: Practical Necessity and the Diminution of Options, by Jeremy Waldron3. Freedom and Unfreedom in Human Categories: The Case of Multiplicity, by Carol RovanePart II. Political Economy4. Freedom and Coercion, Opportunity and the Economy: Neoliberalism, the Individual, and Society, by Joseph E. Stiglitz5. Capitalism and the Question of Freedom, by Prabhat Patnaik6. Whither Economic Rights?, by Akeel BilgramiPart III. Society and Law7. Roe v. Wade: Freedom of the Woman Versus Freedom of the Fetus, by Geoffrey R. Stone8. Freedom and Coercion in Public Health, by Robert Klitzman9. The Prosecution of Gender Equal Abrahamic Circumcision: Implications for Jews and Muslims, by Richard A. ShwederPart IV. Race10. Freedom in the American Century and After, by Eric Foner11. Freedom Through Unfreedom: Du Bois’s Theory of Democratic Despotism, by Robert Gooding-Williams12. The Denial of Freedom and Punitive Excess, by Bruce Western and Jessica T. SimesPart V. The Academy13. The University in a Time of Crisis, by Noam Chomsky14. Persuasion, Manipulation, and Unfreedom, by Michael Ignatieff15. Ridicule and Argument, by Jon Elster16. Is Wokeism Changing the Nature of Inquiry?, by Akeel Bilgrami17. A Confederacy of Snitches, by Laura Kipnis18. Freedom Gained and Freedom Lost in American Science, by Jonathan R. Cole and Daria FranklinPart VI. Media19. Evaluating the Fake News Problem at the Scale of the Information Ecosystem, by Jennifer Allen, Baird Howland, Markus Mobius, David Rothschild, and Duncan J. Watts20. Measuring the News and Its Impact on Democracy, by Duncan J. Watts, David M. Rothschild, and Markus Mobius21. Fighting Disinformation: Lessons from the 1930s, by Anya SchiffrinNotesList of Contributors

It is easy to suppose that losses of freedom occur because of interference in the life of the loser. Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan Cole have recognized that there are many more subtle (and perhaps equally dangerous) ways in which a person's freedom can be diminished. In a lucid introduction, they survey the problems. What then follows is a compendium of varied perspectives on diverse examples from many domains of human life, given by a stellar cast of writers from different fields. In an age when political life is often dominated by glib rhetoric about freedom, these discussions are urgently needed. This volume is a treasure-chest of illuminating surprises.