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Book details
  • Genre:PHILOSOPHY
  • SubGenre:Essays
  • Language:English
  • Pages:79
  • eBook ISBN:9780983777045

Now What?

A Philosophy of Freedom and Equality

by Michael Lydon

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Overview
Now What? is a succinct essay on the twin facts of human freedom and equality, philosophy written in a serious but informal style by Michael Lydon, a writer and musician who lives in New York.
Description
Now What? is a serious but informal essay on the twin facts of human freedom and human equality. Michael Lydon, a musician and writer who lives in New York, writes that all humans are equal because no one knows the future, and that we are free if we can do anything, however small, to make a better future for ourselves. Now What? is a book for anyone who feels that people of every race and color around the world are free and equal beings.
About the author
MICHAEL LYDON is a writer and musician who lives in New York City with his wife, composer Ellen Mandel. Author of many books, among them Rock Folk, Boogie Lightning, Ray Charles: Man and Music, and Writing and Life, Lydon has written for many periodicals as well, the Atlantic Monthly, New York Times, Rolling Stone, and Village Voice among them. He is also a songwriter and playwright and, with Ellen Mandel, has composed an opera, Passion in Pigskin. A Yale graduate, Lydon is a member of ASCAP and on the faculty of St. John’s University and the Third Street Music School Settlement.