The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought
Uday Singh Mehta
Mehta reads Locke as a thinker worried about the imagination, the force that makes people restless and unpredictable. He shows how liberal freedom was built to discipline it, and what that cost.
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