{"product_id":"the-lie-we-call-freedom-autonomy-empire-and-the-refusal-of-sovereign-form","title":"The Lie We Call Freedom: Autonomy, Empire and the Refusal of Sovereign Form","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Shawyer, Alf\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 27 May 2026 by Freedom's Lie in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | \u003cbr\u003e185 x 130 | 76pp\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 11.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; color: black;\"\u003eThere is a silence in Europe that does not end.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not the silence of peace, but of burial.\u003cbr\u003eA silence that began with land, ships, maps—with law spoken in the language of God.\u003cbr\u003eA silence that began with enclosures, led to extraction, and declared itself order.\u003cbr\u003eA silence that made foe of every voice that would not yield.\u003cbr\u003eA silence that calls itself reason.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eAlf Shawyer's many years of thinking through crucial questions has resulted in this compact but hugely rewarding and engaged enquiry, dealing head on with the inherited corruption, hypocrisy and crisis of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003eSeeking to break the intellectual impasse around resistance to the suffocating example of 'Europe' culturally, socially and politically, Shawyer's proposal is finally an existential one, finding energy in unexpected traditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003ePrinted by Burley Fisher Community Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Burley Fisher Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57179740045689,"sku":null,"price":6.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0405\/3385\/2310\/files\/lwcf-front.jpg?v=1777543339","url":"https:\/\/burleyfisherbooks.com\/products\/the-lie-we-call-freedom-autonomy-empire-and-the-refusal-of-sovereign-form","provider":"Burley Fisher Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}