The Dialectic of Freedom by Maxine Greene PAPERBACK 9780807728970

The Dialectic of FreedomAuthor(s): Maxine Greene\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Teachers' College Press, United States\nImprint: Teachers' College Press\nISBN-13: 9780807728970, 978-0807728970\nSynopsis\nSpecial 2018 Edition\n\nFrom the new Introduction by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY :\n\n\""Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'\""\n\nIn The Dialectic of Freedom, Maxine Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, determine, andtoo frequentlyoppress.\n\nExamining the interrelationship between freedom, possibility, and imagination in American education, Greene taps the fields of philosophy, history, educational theory, and literature in order to discuss the many struggles that have characterized Americans quests for freedom in the midst of what is conceived to be a free society. Accounts of the livese