Heretical Freedoms

Paul Simpson

doi:10.1177/20438206251410294

Heretical Freedoms

Paul Simpson^*

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School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences

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Abstract

This commentary explores Whitehead and Hannah's engagement with Paul Ricœur's conception of freedom. Their account frames freedom as an emergent, embodied experience negotiated between voluntary and involuntary conditions, challenging notions of autonomy and structural determinism. Drawing on Nancy's co-existential ontology and Esposito's ideas of community and immunity, this commentary poses freedom the challenge of the we – of thinking the experience of freedom as a plural opening onto difference rather than an individual possession.

Original language	English
Number of pages	4
Journal	Dialogues in Human Geography
Early online date	23 Dec 2025
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/20438206251410294
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 23 Dec 2025

Keywords

subjectivity
freedom
phenomenology
Nancy
Eposito
experience

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