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On Freedom

Four songs of care and constraint

Four songs of care and constraint

On Freedom

Maggie Nelson

On Freedom

On Freedom examines the complexities of our ideas of liberty in four distinct realms: art, sex, drugs, and climate. Drawing on a vast range of material, from critical theory to pop culture to the intimacies and plain exchanges of daily life, Nelson explores how we might think, experience, or talk about Freedom in ways responsive to the conditions of our day. Her abiding interest lies in ongoing "practices of freedom" by which we negotiate our interrelation with-indeed, our inseparability from others, with all the care and constraint that relation entails, while accepting difference and conflict as integral to our communion.

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  • Challenging, academic read
  • Paperback
  • 304 pages

Exploring the concept of freedom in art, sex, drugs and climate.

About this author

Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic and the author of five books of non-fiction. Her books include The Red Parts: Autobiography of a Trial, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (a New York Times Editor’s Choice) and The Argonauts (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award), as well as four collections of poetry. In 2016 she was awarded the MacArthur Genius fellowship. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

Why we like it

For Nelson, thinking publicly through the knots in our culture-from recent art world debates to the turbulent legacies of sexual liberation, from the painful paradoxes of addiction to the lure of despair in the face of the climate crisis-is itself a practice of Freedom, a means of forging fortitude, courage, and company. On Freedom is an invigorating, essential book for challenging times.

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