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Book Announcement: Liberating Judgment by Casson

By Lawrence Solum

Liberating Judgment
Fanatics, Skeptics, and John Locke's Politics of Probability
Douglas John Casson

To read the entire book description or the introduction, please visit: http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9360.html

Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government. The book argues that the work of John Locke instills a civic judgment that avoids the excesses of corrosive skepticism and dogmatic fanaticism, which lead to either political acquiescence or irresolvable conflict.

Cloth | $45.00 / £30.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-14474-0
e-Book | $45.00 | ISBN: 978-1-4008-3688-8

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 02, 2011 (boomark / email).