Freedom and interpretation.

Language: English

Published by BasicBooks, New York, 1993

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DETAILS: very good dust-jacket, cover price $23.00, attractive copy, very good maroon half-cloth with gray boards, a few page corners lightly dinged. JOHNSON, BARBARA. Freedom and interpretation. New York: BasicBooks, 1993, 1st printing number line ending with 1, viii, 226pp., . Dust-jacket by Paul Perlow. Series: Oxford Amnesty lectures, 1992 "Much of modern thought - philosophical, linguistic, literary, and psychoanalytic - denies the possibility of a unified and whole self. What do such theories imply about how we interpret our freedom? If the self is really as fragmented and fragile as such theories suggest, how can we defend human rights in the world?" - "At a time when these questions are as vital as ever, here is a fascinating series of meditations on human freedom and intellectual responsibility by some of the most challenging thinkers of today. In this first volume of the Oxford Amnesty Lectures, seven leading literary figures - Wayne C. Booth, Helene Cixous, Terry Eagleton, Frank Kermode, Julia Kristeva, Paul Ricoeur, and Edward W. Said - explore the relationship between political freedom and modern conceptions of the self as they address questions of identity, nationalism, politics, ethics, poetic language, and freedom." - CONTENTS: Introduction / Barbara Johnson - We who are free, are we free? / Hélène Cixous -- Freedom and interpretation / Frank Kermode -- Individualism and the mystery of the social self : or, does amnesty have a leg to stand on? / Wayne C. Booth -- Self as ipse / Paul Ricoeur -- Deconstruction and human rights / Terry Eagleton -- The speaking subject is not innocent / Julia Kristeva -- Nationalism, human rights, and interpretation / Edward W. Said. 9780465025381 ISBN 0465025382. …

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Title
Freedom and interpretation.
Author
Johnson, Barbara, 1947-2009
Publisher
BasicBooks, New York
Publication year
1993
Condition
Very Good
Dust jacket
includes dust-jacket
Binding
hardcover
Language
English
Edition
1st Edition
Item weight
14.7 ounces
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