Michael Lazarus
Michael Lazarus reviews ‘Free: Coming of age at the end of history’ by Lea Ypi
Michael Lazarus
Wednesday, 23 March 2022
‘Freedom’ is a word that slips off the tongue easily. As the moral philosopher Alasdair MacIntyre notes in his essay ‘Freedom and Revolution’: ‘No word has been more cheapened by misuse. No word has experienced more of the tortuous redefinitions of politicians.’ In the essay, MacIntyre turns to Karl Marx to recover the idea that human beings are essentially free. With the same source of inspiration, but through a poignant and often funny memoir of coming to age in state-socialist Albania, Lea Ypi’s Free attempts the same task.
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Published in
April 2022, no. 441