{"product_id":"obedience-is-freedom-hardback-9781509549337","title":"Obedience is Freedom (Hardback) 9781509549337","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eObedience is Freedom\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJacob Phillips (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509549337, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 May 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e200 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.8 x 14.5 x 1.8 cm, 0.318 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e‘This book is not a thunderous polemic, still less a dry work of abstract argumentation. Phillips, writing in effective and elegant prose, draws on literature, modern history and personal experience to craft richly human insights into thinking and living well […] stimulating and insightful.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e Critic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e‘A thoughtful, fascinating read.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTim Stanley, author of \u003ci\u003eWhatever Happened to Tradition?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e'\u003ci\u003eObedience is Freedom \u003c\/i\u003e​musically weaves together high and low culture, ancient and modern, the sacred and profane, in a richly resonant texture of ideas. This is a book that will surprise and delight both the very well-read and the very online.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMary Harrington, Contributing Editor, \u003ci\u003eUnHerd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e‘We live in the wreckage created by the individual liberationist transformations of the twentieth-century Left and Right. More an exploration than a polemic, Phillips uses literary criticism, storytelling and the history of ideas to envision another path based on solidarity, loyalty and obligations, without which we are liberated from all duties, only to find ourselves alone in a harsh and unjust world.’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAngela Nagle, author of\u003ci\u003e Kill All Normie\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Jacob Phillips has written a book which needed to be written and which needs to be read […] this work cements his reputation as a fine essayist in the best of English traditions.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEuropean Conservative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Utterly unique.”\u003cb\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSeamus Flaherty,\u003ci\u003e Merion West\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Phillips calls on an eclectic range of philosophers, poets, and novelists as tutelary spirits; and he extracts unexpected lessons from disparate, real-world events.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Irish Examiner\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"brilliant and unusual”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpiked\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e“Paragraph after paragraph, a seductive threnody unfolds, structured by an almost syllogistic order.” \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eHenry Hopwood-Phillips\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e, The Critic\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“erudite…crowded with well-expressed insights”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicles Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe virtue of obedience is seen as outdated today, if not downright toxic – and yet, are we any freer than our forebears?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this provocative work, Jacob Phillips argues not. Many feel unable to speak freely, their opinions policed by the implicit or explicit threat of coercion. Impending ecological disaster is the ultimate threat to our freedoms and wellbeing, and living in a disenchanted cosmos leaves people enslaved to nihilistic whim.  Phillips shows that the antiquated notion of obedience to the moral law contains forgotten dimensions, which can be a source of freedom from these contemporary fetters. These dimensions of obedience – such as loyalty, discipline and order – protect people from falling prey to the subtle forms of coercion, control and domination of twenty-first-century life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFusing literary insight with philosophical discussion and cultural critique, Phillips demonstrates that in obedience lies the path to true freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1 Allegiance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2  Loyalty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 3 Deference\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 4 Honour\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5 Obligation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 6 Respect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 7 Responsibility\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8 Discipline\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 9 Duty\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 10 Authority\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Politics \u0026amp; government [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Politics \u0026amp; government\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Politics%20\u0026amp;%20government%20%5BJP%5D%22\"\u003eJP\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52501435253016,"sku":"9781509549337","price":34.78,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509549337.jpg?v=1786238651","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/obedience-is-freedom-hardback-9781509549337","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}