Social Freedom

Kristján Kristjánsson received his PhD from the University of St Andrews, Scotland. He has taught at the University of Akureyri, Iceland, the University of Iceland and the University of Birmingham, UK, where he is currently Professor of Character Education and Virtue Ethics. He has been a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University, the University of Konstanz, St Edmund's College, Cambridge, and the Institute of Education, University of London. He has written six books in English and three in Icelandic. His latest book is Virtues and Vices in Positive Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 2013). He has published numerous articles on topics in education, moral philosophy, and emotion theory in international journals. He is a member of the International Society for Study of the Emotions, and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Moral Education.

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: freedom from Berlin onwards; 2. Negative freedom: the nature of constraints; 3. Obstacles and their weight; 4. The test of moral responsibility; 5. Internal bars and positive liberty; 6. Freedom and power; 7. Observations on method; 8. Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.

"...lucid and useful book....Social Freedom is a book with many virtues and few imperfections. Its wide-ranging discussion of the various positions in the debate on freedom serves as a useful survey, and the level of argumentation is generally high. The discussion proceeds in a careful and focused manner, and is often very convincing. Kristjansson's tyle is formal and clear, every so often there is a charming, and sometimes very Icelandic flash of color..." - Andrew Bailey, Philosophy in Review