How Long to Read Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom

How Long Does it Take to Read Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom?

It takes the average reader 5 hours and 46 minutes to read Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom by Jacob T. Levy

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

Intermediate groups-- voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more--can both protect threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action against such groups. This wide-ranging book argues that, both normatively and historically, liberal political thought rests on a deep tension between a rationalist suspicion of intermediate and local group power, and a pluralism favorable toward intermediate group life, and preserving the bulk of its suspicion for the centralizing state. The book studies this tension using tools from the history of political thought, normative political philosophy, law, and social theory. In the process, it retells the history of liberal thought and practice in a way that moves from the birth of intermediacy in the High Middle Ages to the British Pluralists of the twentieth century. In particular it restores centrality to the tradition of ancient constitutionalism and to Montesquieu, arguing that social contract theory's contributions to the development of liberal thought have been mistaken for the whole tradition. It discusses the real threats to freedom posed both by local group life and by state centralization, the ways in which those threats aggravate each other. Though the state and intermediate groups can check and balance each other in ways that protect freedom, they may also aggravate each other's worst tendencies. Likewise, the elements of liberal thought concerned with the threats from each cannot necessarily be combined into a single satisfactory theory of freedom. While the book frequently reconstructs and defends pluralism, it ultimately argues that the tension is irreconcilable and not susceptible of harmonization or synthesis; it must be lived with, not overcome.

How long is Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom?

Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom by Jacob T. Levy is 337 pages long, and a total of 86,609 words.

This makes it 114% the length of the average book. It also has 106% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 53 minutes to read Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom aloud.

What Reading Level is Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom?

Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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