Equality of Permission The Politics of Feasible Liberalism
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Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
16.11.2026
Verlag
University PressesSeitenzahl
320
Maße (L/B)
22,9/15,2 cm
Gewicht
454 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-0-226-85239-3
From a revered public intellectual, an essential argument for the political preconditions of a liberal society.
Liberalism has always suffered from messaging challenges. It simultaneously implies a pursuit of individual liberty and social equality, two projects often regarded as at odds. Or: Liberal means the opposite of conservative. Except when it doesn't. The list goes on. Liberal bard Deirdre Nansen McCloskey understands these rhetorical troubles. Equality of Permission is her stirring and career-defining intervention on this essentially contested yet critical topic--a forceful case for liberalism as our best hope, and an essential vision of the political conditions necessary for its survival. McCloskey prescribes a liberalism built around liberty from the bottom up: "equality before the law and equality of political and economic permissions," lightly administered.The state, McCloskey argues, is increasingly the source of our discontents--an illiberal institution, hindered by a quixotic fixation on pursuing equality of wealth or opportunity. Equality of Permission evangelizes for a better, and earlier, version of liberalism--that of John Locke, Adam Smith, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Henry David Thoreau--as against a top-down quest for an unattainable utopia. McCloskey shows that statism in pursuit of a chimerical general will, even when well-intentioned, leads to tyranny.
Brimming with energy and erudition, drawing on wisdoms from Alexis de Tocqueville to Mae West, Equality of Permission is McCloskey at the peak of her powers--brilliant, lacerating, garrulous, funny, worldly, and warm. Amid intense debate over the use and abuse of government institutions, McCloskey shares her singular vision for a true democracy, one grounded in respect and conducive to universal human flourishing.
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