On Freedom

On Freedom

Four Songs of Care and Constraint

Summary

What can freedom really mean?

'One of the most electrifying writers at work in America today, among the sharpest and most supple thinkers of her generation' OLIVIA LAING

In this invigorating, essential book, Maggie Nelson explores how we might think, experience or talk about freedom. Drawing on pop culture, theory and real life, she follows freedom - with all its complexities - through four realms: art, sex, drugs and climate. On Freedom offers a bold new perspective on the challenging times in which we live.

'Tremendously energising' Guardian

'This provocative meditation...shows Nelson at her most original and brilliant' New York Times

'Nelson is such a friend to her reader, such brilliant company... Exhilarating' Literary Review

* A New York Times Notable Book *

Reviews

  • With insight and intellectual rigour Nelson wrestles the concept of "freedom" away from its contemporary political misuses and explores what it means in the context of art, sex, drugs and climate.
    Guardian

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Maggie Nelson

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