{"product_id":"the-paradox-of-freedom-a-biographical-dialogue-hardback-9781509551163","title":"The Paradox of Freedom; A Biographical Dialogue (Hardback) 9781509551163","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Biographical Dialogue\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eDavid Scott (Author), Orlando Patterson (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781509551163, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 12 May 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.1 x 16 x 2.5 cm, 0.522 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\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e retraces the unique odyssey of the world's most eminent scholar of slavery and race in history, at the unlikely crossroads of Jamaica, literature, New Left politics, and sociology at Harvard. Read it: you will be swept along, thrilled, and educated all at once.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLoïc Wacquant, University of California, Berkeley\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Forged in a crucible of life experience as a Jamaican, Orlando Patterson's lifelong exploration of the dialectical tension between freedom and slavery is brilliantly elucidated through dialogic conversation with David Scott, who traces the trajectory of a remarkable and still unfolding intellectual and artistic journey.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Bodel, Brown University\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I believe \u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is the best single-volume introduction to Patterson's work currently in print.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Muller, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e allows us to appreciate the extent to which Patterson is a West Indian intellectual, part of an intellectual tradition that includes key figures such as C.L.R. James and Eric Williams.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdom Getachew, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One thing that has always been compelling about Patterson's work, which comes across with special intensity in the interview with David Scott that forms the core of \u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e, is a determined willingness to face reality. Not just reality in its generic, contradictory messiness, but in its tragic and morally unsettling objectivity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander Gourevitch, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A stirring work, embodying a profound intellectual biography of Patterson as a person and of the collective experience of the anti-colonial and postcolonial eras.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAziz Rana, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\"Over six decades, Orlando Patterson has produced a body of work characterized by exceptional diversity, breadth, depth, scholarship, audacity, and impact.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristoph Menke, \u003ci\u003eEuropean Journal of Sociology\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\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e is an exploration of the life and work of Orlando Patterson, probing the relationship between the circumstances of his life from their beginnings in rural Jamaica to the present and the complex development of his intellectual work. A novelist and historical sociologist with an orientation toward public engagement, Patterson exemplifies one way of being a Jamaican and Black Atlantic intellectual.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAt the generative center of Patterson’s work has been a fundamental inquiry into the internal dynamics of slavery as a mode of social and existential domination. What is most provocatively significant in his work on slavery is the way it yields a paradoxical insight into the problem of freedom – namely, that freedom was born existentially and historically from the degradation and parasitic inhumanity of slavery and was as much the creation of the enslaved as of their enslavers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/i\u003e elucidates the pathways by which Patterson has both uncovered the relationship between domination and freedom and engaged intellectually and publicly with the struggles for equality and decolonization among descendants of the enslaved. It will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and social sciences and to anyone interested in the work of one of the most important public intellectuals of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eINTRODUCTION: ORLANDO PATTERSON AND THE PARADOX OF FREEDOM’S BIRTH FROM SLAVERY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Paradox of Slavery and Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Existential Birth of Freedom from Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Historical Birth of Freedom from Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDialogical Generations, Intellectual Traditions, and Problem-Spaces\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE PARADOX OF FREEDOM\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA Mother’s Project\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYears of Decolonization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eKingston College\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUniversity College of the West Indies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Repairer of the Breach\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Rise of the Social Sciences\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe London School of Economics\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWest Indian Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Children of Sisyphus\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Sociology of Slavery\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Caribbean Artists Movement\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn Absence of Ruins\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturning Home\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNot Much of a Joiner\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDie the Long Day\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eArrival at Harvard\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEngaging Black America\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMaking Public Policy in Socialist Jamaica\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSlavery and Social Death\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Paradox of Freedom\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Ordeal of Integration\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRituals of Blood\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Confounding Island\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Perspective of an Historical Sociologist\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eINDEX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Sociology \u0026amp; anthropology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Sociology%20\u0026amp;%20anthropology%20%5BJH%5D%22\"\u003eJH\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":52441811419416,"sku":"9781509551163","price":43.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9781509551163.jpg?v=1785026630","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-paradox-of-freedom-a-biographical-dialogue-hardback-9781509551163","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}