This book is organized as a response to three 'unsettling theses' advanced by Friedrich Hayek regarding the Open Society-which for initial purposes we can understand as a society that is, both economically and socially, liberal, tolerant, and diverse.
Gerald Gaus was the James E. Rogers Professor of Philosophy and Head of the Department of Political Economy and Moral Science, at the University of Arizona. His books include Value and Justification, Justificatory Liberalism, The Order of Public Reason and, most recently, The Tyranny of the Ideal: Justice in a Diverse Society.