Rationalism, pluralism, and freedom /
Intermediate groups- voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more-can both protect threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action against such groups. This wide-ranging book argues that, both normatively and historically, liberal politica...
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Oxford, United Kingdom :
Oxford University Press,
2015
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| Edition: | First edition |
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Table of Contents:
- Freedom, associations, and uniformity
- Two approaches
- Reunderstanding intermediate groups
- Antecedents and foundations
- The ancient constitution, the social contract, and the modern state
- Montesquieu and Voltaire, philosophes and parlements
- The age of revolutions
- Centralization in a democratic age : Tocqueville and Mill
- From liberal constitutionalism to pluralism
- The constitution of group life
- Associations are not states
- Conclusion: Against synthesis