Modern liberty : and the limits of government / Charles Fried.

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Publication details:

New York : W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.

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Record id:

27150

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Author:

Fried, Charles, 1935-

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Series:

Issues of our time.

Subject:

Liberty.

State, The.

Contents:

1. Liberty : the very idea

2. Liberty and its competitors

3. Liberty and rights

4. Liberty of the mind

5. Sex

6. Back to work

7. The spirit of liberty.

Summary:

In asking how the modern welfare state has redefined our notion of individual liberty and whether we are free to express ourselves in speech, at work or through sex, one of America's most esteemed legal scholars gives an impassioned defence of liberty.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 185-201) and index.

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ISBN:

0393060004

9780393060003

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Phys. description:

217 p. : ill. ; 22 cm