At a time when the term "freedom" is loosely-and dangerously-bandied about, this work makes the important distinction between positive and negative freedom, and examines the various "zones" of positive freedom (art, religion, academia, politics, speech, etc.)

Paul Gordon is a professor of comparative literature/humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He received his PhD in comparative literature from Yale.

Previous books: The Critical Double; Rapturous Superabundance: Tragedy after Nietzsche; Dial 'M' for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock; Art as the Absolute; Synaesthetics.