Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts

by Santiago Zabala

Book Overview

Politicians and philosophers presenting themselves as the ultimate bearers of truth and reality have created unprecedented technological, cultural, and political framings. This new order conspires to undermine the interpretive practices of open-ended critique, normalizing a sense of threat to preserve control. The greatest emergency has become the absence of emergencies. Tracing an intellectual alliance between academics such as Jordan Peterson and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0228001927
• ISBN13: 9780228001928
• Release Date: April 2020
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"