Category: open source

Liberty and Love

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Maria Popova on Harriet Taylor and John Stuart Mills via Adam Gopnik‘s A Thousand Small Sanities:The Moral Adventure of Liberalism.

“With an eye to the perilous erasures with which history is often rewritten — history, I continue to insist, is not what happened, but what survives the shipwrecks of judgment and chance” – Popova

“Recognizing that intimate life is an accommodation of contradictions, they understood that political and social life must be an accommodation of contradictions too. The accommodation was their romance. That meant that social accommodation could be romantic, too. Love, like liberty, tugs us in different directions as much as it leads us in one. Love, like liberty, asks us to be only ourselves, and it also asks us to find our self in others’ eyes.” – Gopnik

There are echoes of blackness’s moral underpinnings, here, as found in Moten and in Glissant.

Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series

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Via Forum, Spring 2018.

The LibraryPress@UF, an imprint of the University of Florida Press and the University of Florida George A. Smathers Libraries, is proud to announce the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series.  This series makes available for free 39 books related to Florida and the Caribbean that are regarded as “classics.” It is made possible by
the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of the Humanities Open Book Program.  Books in the series highlight the many connections between the Sunshine State and its neighboring islands. They show how early explorers found and settled Florida and the Caribbean. They tell the tales of early pioneers throughout the region. They examine topics important to the area such as travel, migration, economic opportunity, urban development, and tourism.

Read books in the series for free at http://ufdc.ufl.edu/openbooks