The Perversion of Autonomy: The Proper Uses of Coercion and Constraints in a Liberal Society

By Willard Gaylin and Bruce Jennings

Book Overview

Civilization depends on the community's right to insist on certain conduct from its citizens. But today, our misguided reverence for individual freedom has denied the community its right, to the detriment of everyone. In this elegant and trenchant attack on all the individual rights laws that are increasingly endangering America, Gaylin and Jennings use tragic and all-too-familiar examples to show the extent to which the individual rights movement has run amok.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0684827840
• ISBN13: 9780684827841
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Free Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"