Freedom? (Sireacht: Longings for Another Ireland, #1)

by Kevin Ryan and Fiona Whelan

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As a figure of thought, the concept of freedom tends to shuttle between abstraction and ideal - the first exemplified by Isaiah Berlin's contrast between negative and positive liberty, and the second by Philip Pettit's neo-republican conception of freedom as non-domination. Located within the realm of lived experience however, freedom is invariably forged from context-specific constraints and takes the form of cultural practices. In this contribution to the Sireacht series, the collaborative platform Two Fuse examine the practice of freedom in the context of neo-liberal enterprise culture, focusing specifically on how this is shaped by power relations that sustain...Read more
  • ISBN13 9781782052395
  • Publish Date 2 March 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country IE
  • Imprint Cork University Press