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Roger E. Bissell is research associate with the Molinari Institute
Chris Matthew Sciabarra was visiting scholar at New York University
Edward W. Younkins is professor of accountancy and executive director of the Institute for the Study of Capitalism and Morality at Wheeling Jesuit University
Chapter 1: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism
Chapter 2: Freedom and Flourishing: Toward a Synthesis of Traditions and Disciplines
Chapter 3: The Unchained Dialectic and the Renewal of Libertarian Inquiry
Chapter 4: Whence Natural Rights?
Chapter 5: Dialogical Arguments for Libertarian Rights
Chapter 6: Dialectical Psychology: The Road to Dépassement
Chapter 7: Don Lavoie’s Dialectical Liberalism
Chapter 8: Free Speech, Rhetoric, and a Free Economy
Chapter 9: Exploring the Interconnections of Politics, Economics, and Culture
Chapter 10: Context Matters: Finding a Home for Labor-Managed Enterprise
Chapter 11: The Dialectic of Culture and Markets in Expanding Family Freedom
Chapter 12: Up from Oppression: Triumph and Tragedy in the Great American Songbook
Chapter 13: Why Libertarians Should Be Social Justice Warriors
Chapter 14: Radical Liberalism and Social Liberation
Chapter 15: Social Equality and Liberty
Chapter 16: Formal vs. Substantive Statism: A Matter of Context
Chapter 17: The Political Is Interpersonal:
An Interpretation and Defense of Libertarian Immediatism
Chapter 18: Aesthetics, Ritual, Property, and Fish:
A Dialectical Approach to the Evolutionary Foundations of Property
Dialectics of Liberty offers perspectives from authors spanning a variety of disciplines on how this analysis could proceed for those willing to take up this challenge. I invite those interested to read DOL. The invitation is not limited to practitioners. The book covers a variety of subjects. There is something to interest virtually anyone.
— The Independent Review: A Journal of Political Economy
"This stimulating collection maps out exciting new directions in the philosophy of liberty. The essays are authored by some of the best minds in scholarly libertarian thought today. Whether you are a libertarian or not, you will find many important -- and challenging -- ideas developed here. An important and lively book."— Mario Rizzo, New York University
The Dialectics of Liberty is a remarkably wide-ranging study of libertarian ideas, conducted by writers of great authority but of different views and approaches. Mature yet lively, it is full of surprises. If you want to know the state of libertarian thought right now, you will need to read this book. — Stephen Cox, University of California, San Diego
This book of original essays by thinkers from a very wide array of disciplines opens the fascinating possibility of recasting the libertarian and classical liberal points of view in terms of 'dialectical libertarianism.' This way of looking at the matter promises to lay to rest once and for all the charge that these points of view are atomistic and ahistorical. I hope it inspires further research along these lines.— Lester H. Hunt, University of Wisconsin-Madison