ORCID
- Paul Simpson: 0000-0002-1474-7717
Abstract
This commentary explores Whitehead and Hannah's engagement with Paul Ricœur's conception of freedom. Their account frames freedom as an emergent, embodied experience negotiated between voluntary and involuntary conditions, challenging notions of autonomy and structural determinism. Drawing on Nancy's co-existential ontology and Esposito's ideas of community and immunity, this commentary poses freedom the challenge of the we – of thinking the experience of freedom as a plural opening onto difference rather than an individual possession.
DOI Link
Publication Date
2025-12-23
Publication Title
Dialogues in Human Geography
ISSN
2043-8206
Acceptance Date
2025-01-01
Deposit Date
2026-02-17
Funding
The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
Keywords
subjectivity, freedom, phenomenology, Nancy, Eposito, experience
Recommended Citation
Simpson, P. (2025) 'Heretical Freedoms', Dialogues in Human Geography, . Available at: 10.1177/20438206251410294
