Jeff Love is Professor of German and Russian at Clemson University. He has published two books on Tolstoy, "The Overcoming of History in War and Peace" and "Tolstoy: A Guide for the Perplexed." He is also co-translator of "Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom" and has recently completed a book on the thought of Alexandre Kojève.
WE SEEK FREEDOM. Is this not the rallying cry of American democracy, endlessly repeated, endlessly intoned as its most durable credo? We seek freedom to do as we want without … Read More