Springer is publishing a new book
offering a critique of the liberal state and liberal rights.
ABOUT THE 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 advancing the 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.
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.
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