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Is Freedom a Choice?
Manage episode 494711530 series 2457681
Our lives are filled with innumerable choices, such as for the countless array of products for us to buy, assuming we can afford them. Our politics are often framed as a question of individual, not collective, choice such as the freedom to choose to have an abortion or the act of casting one’s vote in secret, away from the eyes other others. Historian Sophia Rosenfeld argues that the notion that freedom means “the freedom to choose” has been central to modern Western society, but may be coming apart. (Encore presentation.)
Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life Princeton University Press, 2025
The post Is Freedom a Choice? appeared first on KPFA.
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Manage episode 494711530 series 2457681
Our lives are filled with innumerable choices, such as for the countless array of products for us to buy, assuming we can afford them. Our politics are often framed as a question of individual, not collective, choice such as the freedom to choose to have an abortion or the act of casting one’s vote in secret, away from the eyes other others. Historian Sophia Rosenfeld argues that the notion that freedom means “the freedom to choose” has been central to modern Western society, but may be coming apart. (Encore presentation.)
Sophia Rosenfeld, The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life Princeton University Press, 2025
The post Is Freedom a Choice? appeared first on KPFA.
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