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American politics seems like a war between irreconcilable forces and so we may suspect that political life as such is war. This book confronts these suspicions by arguing that liberal political institutions have the unique capacity to sustain social trust in diverse, open societies, undermining aggressive political partisanship.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Moral Peace and Social Trust
- Chapter 2: Trust and the Foundations of Public Justification
- Chapter 3: Public Justification
- Chapter 4: Legal Systems
- Chapter 5: Primary Rights
- Chapter 6: Constitutional Choice
- Chapter 7: Liberalism Justified
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
About the author
Kevin Vallier is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Bowling Green State University and Director of BGSU's Program in Philosophy, Politics, Economics, and Law. He is the author of Liberal Politics and Public Faith: Beyond Separation (Routledge, 2014) and over thirty peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. He is the co-editor of Political Utopias: Contemporary Debates (OUP, 2017) and Religious Exemptions (OUP, 2018).
Summary
American politics seems like a war between irreconcilable forces and so we may suspect that political life as such is war. This book confronts these suspicions by arguing that liberal political institutions have the unique capacity to sustain social trust in diverse, open societies, undermining aggressive political partisanship.
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offers a thoughtful and sophisticated elaboration of the public reason approach and carefully answers possible objections from those already familiar with it ... Recommended.
