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Tag: Freedom
Freedom Under Tutelage: Rousseau’s Education of Dependency
Rousseau on education and freedom begins with a disturbing premise: a person can be taught independence only by passing through…
Before Freedom Becomes a Burden: Reading Your Way into Sartre’s Being and Nothingness
Deciding what to read before Being and Nothingness is mainly an exercise in restraint. Sartre assumes some phenomenology and repeatedly…
Power, Evil, and the Common World: A Six-Book Path into Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt for beginners is best approached through a concrete moral and political crisis, not through her longest theoretical work.…
Existence Before Essence: A Beginner’s Path Through Existentialism
Best Books to Understand Existentialism should not begin with the longest or most intimidating classics. The clearest route starts with…
