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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Farrar Straus Giroux
Price: $23.00
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GEORGE LAKOFF discusses Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea
Harvard Book Store is excited to announce that on Friday, July 14th George Lakoff, an adviser to the Democratic party and the bestselling author of Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate—The Essential Guide for Progressives, will discuss his new book Whose Freedom?: The Battle over America's Most Important Idea.
Since September 11, 2001, the Bush administration has relentlessly invoked the word “freedom.” For many Democrats, it seems that President Bush’s use of the word is meaningless and contradictory—used to justify American military action abroad and the curtailing of civil liberties at home. But in Whose Freedom?, George Lakoff shows that the right has effected a devastatingly coherent and ideological redefinition of freedom. The conservative revolution has remade freedom in its own image and deployed it as a central weapon on the front lines of everything from the war on terror to the battles over religion in the classroom and abortion. In a deep and alarming analysis, Lakoff explains the mechanisms behind this hijacking of our most cherished political idea—and shows how progressives have not only failed to counter the right-wing attack on freedom but have failed to recognize its nature.
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Friday, July 14th |
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6:30 PM |
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Longfellow Hall, Askwith Lecture Hall
13 Appian Way
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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George Lakoff is Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and a founding senior fellow of the Rockridge Institute, a center for research devoted to promoting progressive ideas. He is the author of the influential Don't Think of an Elephant! Know Your Values and Frame the Debate—The Essential Guide for Progressives and Moral Politics: How Liberals and Conservatives Think, as well as seminal books on linguistics, including Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things and Metaphors We Live By (with Mark Johnson). He lives in Berkeley, California.
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