Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom

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Akeel Bilgrami Jonathan R. Cole (John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University)

Noncoercive Threats to Academic, Political, and Economic Freedom

Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan R. Cole (John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University)

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Columbia University Press
02 December 2025

Philosophy & theory of education; Political control & freedoms

States and institutions in both conventionally authoritarian and formally democratic societies overtly circumscribe freedom in any number of ways. Yet there are also subtler forms by which authorities and cultural forces compromise the choices of individuals in ways that do not seem, at first glance, to be coercive. This book brings together a distinguished set of scholars to examine covert constraints on academic, political, and economic freedom from a variety of angles, developing surprising and timely new insights.

Ranging across philosophy, economics, law, health, science, art, and the media, luminaries from different fields expose threats to freedom within avowedly liberal and democratic institutions and cultures. Their incisive essays, both analytical and historical, emphasize how economic inequality, academic orthodoxy, media control, racism, and gender roles undermine the potential for human flourishing. By considering such multifarious noncoercive threats, they illuminate the vexed notion of freedom. Lively and learned, this book offers a provocative and urgent understanding of the often-unacknowledged forces that restrict our choices.

Contributors include David Bromwich, Eric Foner, Robert Gooding-Williams, Michael Ignatieff, Laura Kipnis, Anya Schiffrin, Joseph E. Stiglitz, and Geoffrey R. Stone. In an essay and an interview with the volume editors, Noam Chomsky addresses the neoliberal assault on academic freedom.

Edited by: Akeel Bilgrami, Jonathan R. Cole (John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University)
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780231218559
ISBN 10: 0231218559
Pages: 472
Publication Date: 02 December 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Further / Higher Education , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Akeel Bilgrami is Sidney Morgenbesser Professor of Philosophy and a faculty member of the Committee on Global Thought at Columbia University. Jonathan R. Cole is John Mitchell Mason Professor of the University at Columbia University, where he was provost and dean of faculties from 1989 to 2003. Bilgrami and Cole are the editors of Who’s Afraid of Academic Freedom? (Columbia, 2015).