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This collection of essays explores the ways in which the defense of liberty can be bolstered by use of a dialectical method—that is, a mode of analysis devoted to grasping the full context of philosophical, cultural, and social factors requisite to the sustenance of human freedom. Its strength lies in the variety of disciplines and perspectives represented by contributors who apply explicitly dialectical tools to a classical liberal / libertarian analysis of social and cultural issues. In its conjoining of a dialectical method, typically associated with the socialist left, to a defense of individual liberty, typically associated with the libertarian right, this anthology challenges contemporary attitudes on both ends of the political spectrum. Though this conjunction of dialectics and liberty has been explored before in several works, including a trilogy of books written by one of our coeditors (Chris Matthew Sciabarra), this volume will be the first one of its kind to bring together accomplished scholars in political science, economics, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, law, history, education, and rhetoric.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism

Chapter 2: Freedom and Flourishing: Toward a Synthesis of Traditions and Disciplines

Chapter 3: The Unchained Dialectic and the Renewal of Libertarian Inquiry

Chapter 4: Whence Natural Rights?

Chapter 5: Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights

Chapter 6: Dialectical Psychology: The Road to Dépassement

Chapter 7: Don Lavoie’s Dialectical Liberalism

Chapter 8: Free Speech, Rhetoric, and a Free Economy

Chapter 9: Exploring the Interconnections of Politics, Economics, and Culture

Chapter 10: Context Matters: Finding a Home for Labor-Managed Enterprise

Chapter 11: The Dialectic of Culture and Markets in Expanding Family Freedom

Chapter 12: Up from Oppression: Triumph and Tragedy in the Great American Songbook

Chapter 13: Why Libertarians Should Be Social Justice Warriors

Chapter 14: Radical Liberalism and Social Liberation

Chapter 15: Social Equality and Liberty

Chapter 16: Formal vs. Substantive Statism: A Matter of Context

Chapter 17: The Political Is Interpersonal:

An Interpretation and Defense of Libertarian Immediatism

Chapter 18: Aesthetics, Ritual, Property, and Fish:

A Dialectical Approach to the Evolutionary Foundations of Property

Product details

Published Jan 27 2020
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 376
ISBN 9781498592116
Imprint Lexington Books
Illustrations 5 graphs;
Dimensions 9 x 6 inches
Series Capitalist Thought: Studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

Anthology Editor

Roger E. Bissell

Anthology Editor

Chris Matthew Sciabarra

Anthology Editor

Edward W. Younkins

Edward W. Younkins is Professor of Accountancy and…

Contributor

Edward W. Younkins

Edward W. Younkins is Professor of Accountancy and…

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John F. Welsh

Contributor

Nathan Goodman

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Robert Higgs

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Steven Horwitz

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Gary Chartier

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Billy Christmas

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Kevin A. Carson

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Jason Lee Byas

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Troy Camplin

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