Liberty in the Age of Terror: A Defence of Civil Liberties and Enlightenment Values

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An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater “security”

In this lucid and timely book Grayling examines the cases made by Isaiah Berlin and Ronald Dworkin on the one hand, and Roger Scruton and John Gray on the other, and finally proposes a different way to respond that makes defending the civil liberties on which western society is founded the cornerstone for defeating terrorism.

 

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An impassioned defence of the civil liberties and the rule of law in the face of increasing pressure for ever greater “security”

In this lucid and timely book Grayling examines the cases made by Isaiah Berlin and Ronald Dworkin on the one hand, and Roger Scruton and John Gray on the other, and finally proposes a different way to respond that makes defending the civil liberties on which western society is founded the cornerstone for defeating terrorism.

 

Publisher: Bloomsbury Press

Paperback

2010

ISBN: 9781408803073