This book is smart, well-written, and thoughtful. Swaine discusses autonomy, a central concept in liberal political thought, and offers a fuller alternative: ethical autonomy.
Lucas Swaine is Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. He is the author of The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism and of articles in a wide range of scholarly journals. He is currently pursuing research on the nature and value of freedom of thought.