Overview
- Defines and describes pluralism, pragmatism, and polycentricity and their importance to liberty
- Explains and evaluates Vannatta’s arguments about pragmatism and conservatism with an eye toward animating a pragmatic conservative tradition within libertarianism
- Explores Jeffrey Rosen’s depiction of Justice Brandeis as a “Jeffersonian prophet,” “the leader of a Jeffersonian tradition,” and “the Jewish Jefferson” to examine the meaning of the term “libertarian” in the context of American constitutional jurisprudence
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book considers the “three Ps” of liberty: pragmatism, pluralism, and polycentricity. These concepts enrich the complex tradition of classical liberal jurisprudence, providing workable solutions based on the decentralization, diffusion, and dispersal of power.
Reviews
“Professor Mendenhall offers a thorough defense of legal pluralism, with a novel and persuasive intellectual history of classical liberalism’s roots. In the book, he portrays a vision of civil society that leaves room for competing mores through polycentric governance. This is a refreshing departure from the trend of promoting legal reform designed to purge apostates and enforce ideological purity.” (Stephen C. Miller, Adams-Bibby Chair of Free Enterprise, Manuel H. Johnson Center for Political Economy at Troy University, USA)
“The emergence of Donald Trump as the titular head of American conservatism has shattered the fusion of libertarianism and traditionalism that has comprised the modern conservative project. While repairing the political breach may prove difficult, Allen Mendenhall offers libertarian pluralism as a path forward for a fusionist project in legal philosophy. Along the way, Mendenhall examines not only the legal theory of leading libertarian and conservative thinkers such as F.A. Hayek, Michael Oakeshott, and David Hume, but unlikely allies such as Thomas Jefferson, Oliver Wendell Holmes, and even Louis Brandeis, and the modern Seasteading movement.” (Todd Zywicki, George Mason University Foundation Professor of Law, Antonin Scalia Law School, USA, and Senior Fellow, The Cato Institute, USA)
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Allen Mendenhall is associate dean at Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law, USA, and executive director of the Blackstone & Burke Center for Law & Liberty, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Three Ps of Liberty
Book Subtitle: Pragmatism, Pluralism, and Polycentricity
Authors: Allen Mendenhall
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-39605-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39604-6Published: 13 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-39607-7Published: 13 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-39605-3Published: 12 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 248
Topics: History of Economic Thought/Methodology, Heterodox Economics, Law and Economics