This Is Not Normal: The Politics of Everyday Expectations - Rilegato

Sunstein, Cass R.

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ISBN 10: 0300253508 ISBN 13: 9780300253504

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2021

Riassunto

How our shifting sense of "what's normal" defines the character of democracy

"A provocative examination of social constructs and those who would alternately undo or improve them."&;Kirkus Reviews

This sharp and engaging collection of essays by leading governmental scholar Cass R. Sunstein examines shifting understandings of what&;s normal, and how those shifts account for the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the founding itself, the rise of gun rights, the response to COVID-19, and changing understandings of liberty. Prevailing norms include the principle of equal dignity, the idea of not treating the press as an enemy of the people, and the social unacceptability of open expressions of racial discrimination. But norms are very different from laws. They arise and change in response to individual and collective action. Exploring Nazism, #MeToo, the work of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, constitutional amendments, pandemics, and the influence of Ayn Rand, Sunstein reveals how norms ultimately determine the shape of government in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. Recipient of the 2018 Holberg Prize from the Government of Norway, often described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities, he lives in Concord, MA.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0300253508
• ISBN 13: 9780300253504
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 185
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile