Free is an engrossing memoir of coming of age amid political upheaval. With acute insight and wit, Lea Ypi traces the limits of progress and the burden of the past, illuminating the spaces between ideals and reality, and the hopes and fears of people pulled up by the sweep of history.

Lea Ypi (@lea_ypi) is Professor in Political Theory in the Government Department, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Adjunct Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University.

Discussants: Othon Anastasakis (SEESOX, St Antony's College, Oxford); Paul Betts (St Antony's College, Oxford)

Chair: Ezgi Basaran (St Antony's College, Oxford)

FREE Coming of Age at the End of History

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