The Three Dimensions Of Freedom

Author : Billy Bragg
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780571353231

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The Three Dimensions of Freedom by Billy Bragg Pdf

At a time when opinion trumps facts and truth is treated as nothing more than another perspective, free speech has become a battleground. While authoritarians and algorithms threaten democracy, we argue over who has the right to speak.To protect ourselves from encroaching tyranny, we must look beyond this one-dimensional notion of what it means to be free and, by reconnecting liberty to equality and accountability, restore the individual agency engendered by the three dimensions of freedom.

Author : Sidney Hook
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520347281

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The Paradoxes of Freedom by Sidney Hook Pdf

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1962.

Author : Ryszard Legutko
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781641771382

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The Cunning of Freedom by Ryszard Legutko Pdf

This book has two currents. The first is an analysis of the three concepts of freedom that are called, respectively, negative, positive, and inner. Negative freedom is defined as an absence of coercion, positive freedom as an ability to rule oneself and others, inner freedom as being oneself; that is, being the author of one’s decisions. Each concept is analyzed both in terms of its development in the history of ideas and in terms of its internal logic. The major problem of negative freedom is to find widely accepted rules according to which this freedom can be distributed. Positive freedom’s major difficulty is to define what constitutes a free person. The greatest dilemma with inner freedom is how to correlate it with the proper interpretation of the human self. The book advances the thesis, and this constitutes the other current of its narrative—that we have been witnessing the advent of a new form of despotism, much of it being the effect of liberalism’s dominant position. Precisely because it took a reductionist position, liberalism has impoverished our view of freedom and, consequently, our notion of human nature with its political, moral, and metaphysical dimensions.

Author : Bart van der Sloot,Aviva de Groot
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789048540136

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The Handbook of Privacy Studies by Bart van der Sloot,Aviva de Groot Pdf

The Handbook of Privacy Studies is the first book in the world that brings together several disciplinary perspectives on privacy, such as the legal, ethical, medical, informatics and anthropological perspective. Privacy is in the news almost every day: mass surveillance by intelligence agencies, the use of social media data for commercial profit and political microtargeting, password hacks and identity theft, new data protection regimes, questionable reuse of medical data, and concerns about how algorithms shape the way we think and decide. This book offers interdisciplinary background information about these developments and how to understand and properly evaluate them. The book is set up for use in interdisciplinary educational programmes. Each chapter provides a structured analysis of the role of privacy within that discipline, its characteristics, themes and debates, as well as current challenges. Disciplinary approaches are presented in such a way that students and researchers from every scientific background can follow the argumentation and enrich their own understanding of privacy issues.

Author : Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030883195

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Dimensions of Free Speech by Devrim Kabasakal Badamchi Pdf

This book offers a new theoretical framework for free speech by critically analyzing the major justifications for free speech. Unlike most theories that justify free speech on single grounds, this book argues for a justification; namely the double grounded principled approach; that combines and revises the arguments of equal autonomy and democratic participation at the same time. It claims that a revised and critical blending of these two justifications can serve free speech to be grounded on strong principled arguments. The book has both a theoretical and practical focus: first, it discusses the conceptual circumstances of free speech and major theoretical justifications for free speech and then, it applies the developed theoretical framework to the cases of academic freedom, media freedom and hate speech separately. This volume will appeal to readers who are interested in general free speech theories as well as readers who look for an alternative view on specific topics such as academic freedom, media freedom and hate speech.

Author : Billy Bragg
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780571327768

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Roots, Radicals and Rockers by Billy Bragg Pdf

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZERoots, Radicals & Rockers: How Skiffle Changed the World is the first book to explore this phenomenon in depth - a meticulously researched and joyous account that explains how skiffle sparked a revolution that shaped pop music as we have come to know it. It's a story of jazz pilgrims and blues blowers, Teddy Boys and beatnik girls, coffee-bar bohemians and refugees from the McCarthyite witch-hunts. Billy traces how the guitar came to the forefront of music in the UK and led directly to the British Invasion of the US charts in the 1960s.Emerging from the trad-jazz clubs of the early '50s, skiffle was adopted by kids who growing up during the dreary, post-war rationing years. These were Britain's first teenagers, looking for a music of their own in a pop culture dominated by crooners and mediated by a stuffy BBC. Lonnie Donegan hit the charts in 1956 with a version of 'Rock Island Line' and soon sales of guitars rocketed from 5,000 to 250,000 a year. Like punk rock that would flourish two decades later, skiffle was a do-it-yourself music. All you needed were three guitar chords and you could form a group, with mates playing tea-chest bass and washboard as a rhythm section.

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-06
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780143198468

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Fourth Dimension by Eric Walters Pdf

In a world with no power, chaos soon descends. A powerful look at the disintegration of society in the wake of a massive and mysterious outage that has knocked out all modern amenities. Fifteen-year-old Emma has moved house with her ex-Marine mother and younger brother. It's a brand-new condo building, which explains the semi-regular power outages, as workers complete the units around them. So Emma isn't particularly concerned when the latest blackout hits just as they are preparing to leave town on a long weekend camping trip. But then the car won't start, and their cellphones appear dead -- and all the cars outside their building seem to be stalled in a long traffic jam ... In the midst of what appears to be a massive power outage, with their camping gear packed and ready, Emma and her family canoe over to the islands, just offshore, to wait it out. But while they land on an isolated island, with a relatively hidden site, they are far from safe, as people become increasingly desperate to find food and shelter. And as the days pass, and the power remains out, the threat of violence becomes all too real.

Author : Anne McCaffrey
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780698143838

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Freedom's Challenge by Anne McCaffrey Pdf

The alien Catteni invaded Earth and enslaved thousands of humans on the planet Botany, where they struggle to survive while colonizing the world for their overseers. Now that they’ve proved Botany is capable of sustaining life, Kris Bjornsen and her fellow settlers have no intention of surrendering the home they’ve created for themselves… Armed with the knowledge that the true enemy behind the Catteni is the Eosi race, Kris has begun a campaign to free Botany’s settlers by raising a rebellion among her people against their parasitic oppressors. Aided by her Catteni lover, Zainal, Kris and the colonists manage to steal warships—and discover dissidents on other Eosi-controlled worlds. If all of the subjugated races join forces, they will have an army large enough to win their freedom and their worlds. The war of liberation has begun.

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780307874290

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Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen Pdf

By the winner of the 1988 Nobel Prize in Economics, an essential and paradigm-altering framework for understanding economic development--for both rich and poor--in the twenty-first century. Freedom, Sen argues, is both the end and most efficient means of sustaining economic life and the key to securing the general welfare of the world's entire population. Releasing the idea of individual freedom from association with any particular historical, intellectual, political, or religious tradition, Sen clearly demonstrates its current applicability and possibilities. In the new global economy, where, despite unprecedented increases in overall opulence, the contemporary world denies elementary freedoms to vast numbers--perhaps even the majority of people--he concludes, it is still possible to practically and optimistically restain a sense of social accountability. Development as Freedom is essential reading.

Author : Melvyn Bragg
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473690950

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Love Without End by Melvyn Bragg Pdf

'Melvyn Bragg's account of the passionate and painful love affair between the 12th century radical theologian, Peter Abelard, and the brilliant young convent-educated Eloise springs magnificently to life . . . Thrilling.' Piers Plowright, Tablet Within the Cloisters of Notre-Dame, a charismatic philosopher and a young woman renowned for her scholarship embark on an ardent, secret affair. It will send shockwaves through Paris, incur savage retribution and lead to years of separation, though nothing will break the bond between them. Bringing the true story of Heloise and Abelard to vivid life, this engrossing novel conveys the powerful emotions and beliefs that drove them. It captures a couple who defied the conventions and religious orthodoxies of their times with striking audacity, and illuminates why their extraordinary tale still resonates today.

Author : Steven Lukes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781352012347

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Power by Steven Lukes Pdf

The third edition of this seminal work includes the original text, first published in 1974, the updates and reflections from the second edition and two groundbreaking new chapters. Power: A Radical View assesses the main debates about how to conceptualize and study power, including the influential contributions of Michel Foucault. The new material includes a development of Lukes's theory of power and presents empirical cases to exemplify this. Including a refreshed introduction, this third edition brings a book that has consolidated its reputation as a classic work and a major reference point within Social and Political Theory to a whole new audience. It can be used on modules across the Social and Political Sciences dealing with the concept of power and its manifestation in the world. It is also essential reading for all undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in the history of Social and Political Thought. New to this Edition: - A revised and refreshed introduction - Two new chapters on 'Domination and Consent' and 'Exploring the Third Dimension'

Author : Beate Roessler,Dorota Mokrosinska
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107052376

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Social Dimensions of Privacy by Beate Roessler,Dorota Mokrosinska Pdf

An interdisciplinary group of privacy scholars explores social meaning and value of privacy in new privacy-sensitive areas.

Author : Jeanette Windle
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781414360584

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Freedom's Stand by Jeanette Windle Pdf

Three foreigners living in war-ravaged Afghanistan--Jamil, a newly-converted Christian; relief worker Amy Mallory; and Special Forces veteran Steve Wilson--search for love and freedom in a country where religious injustice runs rampant.

Author : Nicolas Dickner
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780345811202

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Six Degrees of Freedom by Nicolas Dickner Pdf

A funny and fast-paced novel about obsession and adventure, science experiments and parakeets, coding and container ships, Six Degrees of Freedom won the Governor General's Literary Award in its original French. Nicolas Dickner is a previous winner of Canada Reads for the novel Nikolski. "Brilliant, beautiful and poetic with moments of pure reading pleasure! You read it with a smile on your lips--it's a book that makes you happy." --Anne Michaud, Bernier et Cie, Radio-Canada Three characters, infinite paths to freedom... Lisa is a young woman whose longing for adventure is tethered by the demands of an eccentric mother and a father slowly succumbing to Alzheimer's. Lisa's friend Éric is an agoraphobic hacker who becomes independently wealthy before his eighteenth birthday. And Jay is a former computer pirate who's paying her debt to society, day by stultifying day, working for the RCMP in Montreal. But when Jay learns of the existence of the mysterious shipping container Papa Zulu, she begins a clandestine investigation to discover who made it disappear and what they are trying to hide.

Author : Mark Haugaard
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526110398

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The four dimensions of power by Mark Haugaard Pdf