Pick two authors from the second and third sections of class, and explain how they differently understand freedom and its exercise
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? Many of our texts understand the exercise of freedom as a collective struggle, while others see it as an individual act. Some see freedom as a daily practice of participation, while others see it as a single moment of refusal. Some see it as all of these things. Pick two authors from the second and third sections of class, and explain how they differently understand freedom and its exercise. You will also want to include how they differently define unfreedom. Pick from the following authors: Tocqueville, Thoreau, Spencer, Arendt, Goldman, Frederick Douglass, MLK, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Schlafly, The Combahee Collective, Audre Lorde, Roderick Ferguson, Far From Heaven.
? Choose two texts from the second and third sections of class, and create a dialogue between the authors about the content of freedom, how freedom can be achieved, and what are the factors that can block freedom’s practice. You are welcome to take creative license if you choose, and to write in the authors’ idioms. Pick two of the following authors: Tocqueville, Thoreau, Spencer, Arendt, Goldman, Frederick Douglass, MLK, Barack Obama, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Betty Friedan, Susan Brownmiller, Phyllis Schlafly, The Combahee Collective, Audre Lorde, Roderick Ferguson, Far From Heaven.
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