ABSTRACT
Still under the legacy of the Enlightenment but also infused with new ways of understanding, so-called Western cultures struggle to maintain long-standing understandings of knowledge as a liberating, democratizing force. Might it be, we ask with discomfort, that the relationship between knowledge and freedom is not quite as simple and benign as assumed? — or, to use the terms of this volume, that their relationship is of an altogether more accidental and contradictory nature than suggested by a filial analogy such as “parent and child”?
