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 Hist0orically, 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. Freedom, Associations, And Uniformity -- Two Approaches -- Reunderstanding Intermediate Groups -- Antecedents And Foundations -- The Ancient Constitution, The Social Contract, And The Modern State -- Montesquieu And Voltaire, Philosophes And Parlements -- The Age Of Revolutions -- Centralization In A Democratic Age : Tocqueville And Mill -- From Liberal Constitutionalism To Pluralism -- The Constitution Of Group Life -- Associations Are Not States -- Conclusion: Against Synthesis. Jacob T. Levy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

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Levy, Jacob T.

Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

German Historical Institute London

OUP Oxford

First edition, Oxford, United Kingdom, 2015

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

Oxford University Press USA, Oxford, 2015

First edition., England, 2015

1. ed, Oxford, 2014

Corby, 2014

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Various printings.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Legacy 2017

Cover 1
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom 4
Copyright 5
Acknowledgments 6
Contents 12
Introduction 16
Boundaries 24
Europe 26
Economic and Political Associations 27
Formal, Informal, and Governmental Groups 31
The Ambiguity of Civil Society 32
Part I 38
1. Freedom, Associations, and Uniformity 40
The Setting 40
Some Sources of Disagreement 44
Autonomy and Toleration 44
Whose Freedom? 46
The Sources of Law and Social Order 49
Discrimination and Diversity 55
2. Two Approaches 57
The Pure Liberal Theory of Freedom of Association 57
Why the Pure Theory is Not Satisfactory 62
Congruence 66
Why Congruence is Not Satisfactory 68
3. Reunderstanding Intermediate Groups 71
Treating Groups as Groups 71
Tendencies toward State Excess 76
Property and Wealth 76
Secrecy and Privacy 78
Transnationality 80
The Centralizing Temperament and the Man of System 81
Congruence Again 83
Tendencies toward Group Excess 86
Authority Generates Power 86
Pluralism Generates Power 89
Interested and Invasive Power 94
Part II 100
4. Antecedents and Foundations 102
The Birth of Intermediacy 104
The Roman Law 116
Facts and Norms 118
5. The Ancient Constitution, the Social Contract, and the Modern State 121
The Emergence of the State 121
Peers, Provinces, and Parlements 122
The Ancient Constitution 127
Corporatism and Parliaments 134
The Theorists of the Ancient Constitution 138
Ancient Constitutionalism and its Neighbors 148
6. Montesquieu and Voltaire, Philosophes and Parlements 156
The Early Eighteenth Century 157
Montesquieu 160
Voltaire 174
7. The Age of Revolutions 186
Smith, Burke, and Paine 187
Tracy and Constant 199
The United States 216
The Society of the Cincinnati 224
8. Centralization in a Democratic Age: Tocqueville and Mill 227
Tocqueville on Associations and Corps 230
Mill on Centralization and Local Despotism 232
9. From Liberal Constitutionalism to Pluralism 248
The British Pluralists 248
Lord Acton 251
Acton and the Pluralists 254
The Pluralist Theory of Group Life 259
Part III 266
10. The Constitution of Group Life 268
Intermediacy Affects Politics 269
Faction 270
The Illiberal Majority 271
Minority Group Capture 273
The Majoritarian State 275
Territory and Government 276
Politics and Balance 279
11. Associations are Not States 281
Complex Associations 281
Universities and Liberal Justice 286
State Action 293
Conclusion: Against Synthesis 298
Taylor and the “Long March” 300
Rawls and the Morality of Association 305
Hegel, Ethical Life, and Corporate Forms 307
Bibliography 312
Index 330

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