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Jan 1, 2001 · Prisons We Choose to Live Inside. Doris Lessing. 3.91. 2,587 ratings403 reviews. The celebrated author explores new ways to view ourselves and the society we live in, and gives us fresh answers to such enduring questions as how to think for ourselves and understand what we know.
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside is a collection of five essays by the British writer Doris Lessing, which were previously delivered as the 1985 Massey Lectures. The Essays. The five collected essays are generally meant to be read in order though they can be read independently.
Oct 14, 1987 · The prisons that we chose to live inside, for Lessing, are our thought patterns: our conviction that we are right and that others are wrong, and this may be in politics, religion, philosophy or anything else.
- Doris Lessing
May 31, 2013 · Prisons we choose to live inside. by. Doris Lessing. Publication date. 1987. Topics. Social aspects, Individuality, Social groups, Collective behavior, Mass media, Protected DAISY. Publisher. Harper & Row.
Nov 28, 2013 · She argues that only if we are free to interrogate authority and disagree that despotism and ignorance can be defeated. We must examine 'ideas, from whatever source they come, to see how they may...
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.
In this perceptive collection of essays, Doris Lessing addresses directly the prime questions before us all: how to think for ourselves, how to understand what we know, how to pick a path in a...
