Liberty Matters: Rationalism, Pluralism, and the History of Liberal Ideas (May 2016)

• Jacob T. Levy (author)

Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom (2014), argues that there is a tension within liberal theories of freedom, between views concerned with the risk of tyranny posed by the modern, centralized and centralizing, Weberian state and those that see threats to liberty as arising from customary decentralized authority. Levy describes these views as “competing liberal social theories of power” and explores their deep origins within the classical liberal tradition which goes back several centuries.