Sophie Scott-Brown delves into the meaning of everyday anarchy.

What does freedom really look like?

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Absolute freedom of the individual? Or chaotic dystopia? Anarchy is one of the most violently divisive political ideals going. Join outspoken theorist, Sophie Scott-Brown, as she sets out her vision of anarchy for everyone.

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Sophie Scott-Brown is the former Director of Gresham College and fellow at the University of St Andrews. An inspiring intellectual historian with research interests in modern European political thought, Anarchism, and the history of education, Sophie is also a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and of the Royal History Society.

She is an author excited by historical biography as a means of understanding ideas. Her work includes The Histories of Raphael Samuel: A Portrait of a People’s Historian and Colin Ward and the Art of Everyday Anarchy.

00:00 Intro
00:23 Everyday anarchism
00:53 Objections to anarchism
05:44 Positive vs negative liberty
08:43 The social individual
11:08 A social account of liberty
12:58 What anarchism isn't
13:36 What anarchism is

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