Prisons We Choose to Live Inside

Doris Lessing

House of Anansi, Aug 1, 1992 - Social Science - 80 pages

In her 1985 CBC Massey Lectures Doris Lessing addresses the question of personal freedom and individual responsibility in a world increasingly prone to political rhetoric, mass emotions, and inherited structures of unquestioned belief.

The Nobel Prize-winning author of more than thirty books, Doris Lessing is one of our most challenging and important writers.

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User Review  - baswood - LibraryThing

Prisons We Choose To Live Inside by Doris Lessing 1986 These essays are taken from a series of five lectures given by Doris Lessing under the auspices of the Canadian Broadcasting Company in 1985. The ...

PRISONS WE CHOOSE TO LIVE INSIDE

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Many of Lessing's (Shikasta; The Good Terrorist, etc.) novels have dealt with the particular confusions and complexities of modern life. In these brief essays, originally lectures, she confronts the ...

Contents

• When in the Future They Look Back on Us: 9
• You Are Damned We Are Saved: 23
• Switching Off to See Dallas: 35
• Group Minds: 49
• Laboratories of Social Change: 63

About the author

Doris Lessing was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She lives in North London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Prisons We Choose to Live Inside; CBC Massey Lectures
• Author: Doris Lessing
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: House of Anansi, 1992
• ISBN: 177089022X, 9781770890220
• Length: 80 pages
• Subjects: Philosophy / Free Will & Determinism; Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy; Social Science / Sociology / General