Overview
- Provides a critical legal examination of the liberal state and liberal rights in the law
- Presents a systematic alternative to liberal approaches to both the law and rights, grounded in a left-wing conception of human dignity
- Argues that the way forward is not to abandon, but to radicalize, the potential of the liberal project
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Liberalism and Its Critics
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Front Matter
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A Critical Legal Approach to Dignity, Law, and Rights
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book has two aims. First, to provide a critical legal examination of the liberal state and liberal rights in the law, and secondly, to present a systematic alternative to liberal approaches to both the law and rights, grounded in a left wing conception of human dignity.
At the opening of the 21st century a remarkable thing happened. Liberalism, once considered the only doctrine left standing at the end of history, began to face renewed competition from both the political left and the post-modern conservative right. This book argues that the way forward is not to abandon, but to radicalize, the potential of the liberal project. Analysing major theoretical positions in order to build a critical genealogy of liberal rights, McManus lucidly develops a left wing alternative to the classic liberal approach to rights drawing on the traditions of liberal egalitarians and deliberative democracy theory. Societies, he argues, should be committed to advancingthe human dignity of all through the enshrinement of certain rights into positive state law, the expansion of democracy and a resolute commitment to economic equality.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Matthew McManus is a Professor of Politics at Whitman College and the author of Making Human Dignity Central to International Human Rights Law and The Rise of Post-Modern Conservatism, amongst other books.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Critical Legal Examination of Liberalism and Liberal Rights
Authors: Matthew McManus
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61025-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61024-1Published: 24 November 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-61027-2Published: 24 November 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-61025-8Published: 23 November 2020
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 289
Topics: Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Law