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No Escape: Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights

No Escape: Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights

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General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0814766951
ISBN13: 9780814766958
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Sep 15 2002
Pages: 240
Weight: 1.09
Height: 0.88 Width: 6.32 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

Conventional legal and political scholarship places liberalism, which promotes and defends individual legal rights, in direct opposition to communitarianism, which focuses on the greater good of the social group. According to this mode of thought, liberals value legal rights for precisely the same reason that communitarians seek to limit their scope: they privilege the individual over the community. However, could it be that liberalism is not antithetical to social group identities like nationalism as is traditionally understood? Is it possible that those who assert liberal rights might even strengthen aspects of nationalism?

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