On Cultural Freedom : An Exploration of Public Life in Poland and America

The University of Chicago Press

On Cultural FreedomAn Exploration of Public Life in Poland and America\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey C. Goldfarb\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Chicago Press, United States\nImprint: University of Chicago Press\nISBN-13: 9780226301006, 978-0226301006\nSynopsis\nIn this timely study, Jeffrey C. Goldfarb explores the nature and prospects of cultural freedom by examining the conditions that favor or threaten its development in the political East and West. \n\nGoldfarbwho examines conditions in the Soviet Union, the United States, and their respective European alliesfocuses most closely upon Poland and the United States. He investigates a wide range of concrete cases, including the Polish opposition movement and Solidarity, the migration of artists, the American television and magazine industries, American philanthropy, and communist cultural conveyor belts. \n\nFrom these cases, Goldfarb derives a definitive set of sociological conditions for cultural freedom: critical creativit.