Prisons We Choose to Live InsideIn her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief.The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers. |
Contents
When in the Future They Look Back on Us | 9 |
You Are Damned We Are Saved | 23 |
Switching Off to See Dallas | 35 |
Group Minds | 49 |
Laboratories of Social Change | 63 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Prisons We Choose to Live Inside Cbc Massey Lectures Series |
| Author | Doris May Lessing |
| Publisher | House of Anansi, 1991 |
| ISBN | 0887845215, 9780887845215 |
| Length | 80 pages |
| Subjects | › Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism |
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