George Lakoff. (2013). Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

George Lakoff. 2013. Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea. Blackstone Publishing.

George Lakoff, Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea. Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

George Lakoff. Whose Freedom?: The Battle Over America's Most Important Idea. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2013.

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     George Lakoff is an American cognitive linguist best known for his thesis that lives of individuals are influenced by the central metaphors used to explain complex phenomena. He has written several works on mathematics, politics, and language, including Metaphors We Live By, which introduced his metaphor thesis. He is a professor of linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, where he has taught since 1972.

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Freedom is one of the most contested words in our deeply polarized nation. This eye-opening work reveals how this has happened and how it will continue on all fronts - economic, education, healthcare, religion, science, civil justice, and security - unless we reframe the debate with traditional progressive ideas of empathy, integrity, and responsibility. Engaged citizens can regain their power. Our government can function honestly. In this critical time for our country, Lakoff argues that it is possible for progressives to reclaim freedom and communicate effectively about its real meaning.

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     "In the battle of ideas, George Lakoff is one of the progressive movement's five-star generals. Here he shows what we must do to take back precious ground lost to the right - the concept of 'freedom', on which America's very foundation is built. Read this and arm yourself."

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   • content: The most critical treatise on the concept of freedom one will ever find, Lakoff's work posits that the United States is currently battling an internal war over whose concept of freedom should direct the nation. Conservative freedom stems from what Lakoff refers to as the "strict father" model, while progressive freedom can be found in his "nurturing family" paradigm. The two concepts represent the freedom to exploit and the freedom from exploitation, respectively. Lakoff, a linguist, delivers an emphatic narration of his book, with special vocal attention to the word "freedom," which appears at least 10 times per page. He navigates listeners through his intense prose with an impressive ability to contextualize his message. L.E. (c) AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine
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     May 15, 2006
     Lakoff revisits the theme of his 2004 bestseller (Don't Think of an Elephant!
     ), exploring the role of rhetorical metaphors in shaping political discourse. Specifically, he explores how the conservative and progressive definitions of "freedom" differ from one another, in order to demonstrate how liberals uphold a dominant American political tradition while "radical conservatives" seek to overturn that legacy for their own selfish ends. The historical evidence for this claim is never detailed to a persuasive degree, however, leaving a simplistic psychological model in which conservatives adhere to "strict father" thinking while progressives embrace a "nurturant parent" model. Though Lakoff's proposed solution calls upon progressives to reject the conservative framework with new language, it's highly questionable whether talking about "freedom judges" instead of "judicial activists" could really catch on. The author undermines his own warnings that the conservative movement is a threat to free will by suggesting that conservatives are trying to brainwash Americans to render them less capable of adopting progressive attitudes. Lakoff has been heralded for offering Democrats a new strategic vision, but the plan he articulates entails creating a populist movement that demonizes the right wing as a "dangerous elite"—hardly a new frame for political discourse.

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