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How have we come to deify choice? In conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld

How have we come to deify choice? In conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld

Update: 2025-07-08
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Choice is so important to who we are in the West is no longer feels like something we do, so much as something we are. Deny someone choice, and it feels like you are challenging their very humanity. 

Where does this obsession with choice come from, historically and philosophically? What are its foundations and justifications? And has it gone too far? Can you have too much of this particular good thing? 

This week Nick Spencer talks with Sophia Rosenfeld about her book ‘The Age of Choice: A History of Freedom in Modern Life’ 

Purchase a copy of her book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Age-Choice-History-Freedom-Modern/dp/0691164711  

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How have we come to deify choice? In conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld

How have we come to deify choice? In conversation with Sophia Rosenfeld

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