Another freedom. An alternative story of one idea. Boym S.

The word "freedom" is used so often, and they are so mercilessly abused that it risks turning into a hackneyed stamp. In the book “Another Freedom”, the anthropologist and theorist of culture Svetlana Boym (1959-2015) offers a fresh look at this fundamental concept. Exploring the rich cross-cultural history of the idea from antiquity to this day, Boym argues that our attempts to comprehend the phenomenon of freedom should not be limited to the question: “What is freedom?”, But they must also include the question: “What could become freedom? " Starting from the analysis of the formation of politics and art as a public sphere, Boym gradually expands the research field, considering the relationship between freedom and liberation, modernity and terror, political dissent and creative removal. Gathers under one cover of thinkers, who, with all the dissimilarity of their intellectual constructions, are united by a passionate commitment to the concept of freedom. The book is adjacent to Aeschylus and Euripides, Kafka and Mandelstam, Redendt and Heidegger, as well as Dostoevsky and Marx, who entered into a virtual conversation on the streets of Paris.