This Is Not Normal The Politics of Everyday Expectations Cass R. Sunstein
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- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication date:
- 23 Mar 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780300253504
- Imprint:
- Yale University Press
- Dimensions:
- 208 pages: 216 x 140 x 19mm
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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.
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.
"What if our constitution has nothing to do with the Constitution? In this extraordinary new book, perhaps the leading legal academic of our time places a new problem at the center of the challenge of self-government: How does truth navigate the minefields of the normal? This is exactly the moment when we might muster the strength to be different, maybe even better."—Lawrence Lessig, author of They Don't Represent Us
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