Modern Liberty, Partisanship, and Identity
On Mark Lilla and Yuval Levin
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8895962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Trevor Shelley (0000-0002-2529-1647, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 206-228 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Review of American Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-7720 • E-ISSN: 1710-114X |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cras-2021-011 |
| OpenAlex | W4280583986 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Applying Pierre Manent’s description of the modern regime as an “organization of separations,” this essay retraces the respective developmental accounts of this regime in the early works of Yuval Levin and Mark Lilla—who each analyze a particular separation—and demonstrates its influence on their more recent American political commentary. We gain a deeper understanding of key differences in conservative and liberal approaches to revitalizing contemporary civic life and renewed appreciation for the inescapability of partisanship in thinking and acting politically. Both Levin and Lilla—scholars and public intellectuals alike—emphasize the importance of reason in undergirding free and deliberative politics, but they differ on how it emerges and is best upheld, which in turn influences their proposed remedies for today’s growing individualism, meeting the challenge of identity politics, and restoring moderation to the present political situation. This essay thereby demonstrates that foundational thinking shapes analyses and prognoses of present political discontents, as much as contemporary concerns about partisanship and identity are endogenous to modern liberty
Aesthetics · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Identity (music · Individualism · Moderation · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Psychology · Religion and Society Interactions · Social Psychology · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |