Description: This book brings together a distinguished set of scholars to examine covert constraints on academic, political, and economic freedom from a variety of angles, developing surprising and timely new insights.
Review Quotes: It is easy to suppose that losses of freedom occur because of interference in the life of the loser. Akeel Bilgrami and Jonathan Cole have recognized that there are many more subtle (and perhaps equally dangerous) ways in which a person's freedom can be diminished. In a lucid introduction, they survey the problems. What then follows is a compendium of varied perspectives on diverse examples from many domains of human life, given by a stellar cast of writers from different fields. In an age when political life is often dominated by glib rhetoric about freedom, these discussions are urgently needed. This volume is a treasure-chest of illuminating surprises.--Philip Kitcher, John Dewey Professor of Philosophy, Emeritus, Columbia University