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Book launch - Daniel Chandler 'Free and Equal' with Ben Ansell
Daniel Chandler will discuss his new book ‘Free and Equal’ with DPIR’s own Ben Ansell.
Free and Equal
Imagine: you are designing a society, but you don’t know who you’ll be within it – rich or poor, man or woman, gay or straight. What would you want that society to look like?
This is the revolutionary thought experiment proposed by the twentieth century’s greatest political philosopher, John Rawls. As economist and philosopher Daniel Chandler argues in this hugely ambitious and exhilarating intervention, it is by rediscovering Rawls that we can find a way out of the escalating crises that are devastating our world today.
Taking Rawls’s humane and egalitarian liberalism as his starting point, Chandler builds a careful and ultimately irresistible case for a progressive agenda that would fundamentally reshape our societies for the better. He shows how we can protect free speech and transcend the culture wars; get money out of politics; and create an economy where everyone has the chance to fulfil their potential, where prosperity is widely shared, and which operates within the limits of our finite planet.
This is a book brimming with hope and possibility – a galvanising alternative to the cynicism that pervades our politics. Free and Equal has the potential not only to transform contemporary debate, but to offer a touchstone for a modern, egalitarian liberalism for many years to come, cementing Rawls’s place in political discourse, and firmly establishing Chandler as a vital new voice for our time.
Date:
12 June 2024, 18:00
Venue:
Blackwells Bookshop, 48-51 Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BQ
Speakers:
Ben Ansell (University of Oxford),
Daniel Chandler (LSE)
Booking required?:
Required
Booking url:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/daniel-chandler-free-and-equal-with-ben-ansell-tickets-878196849417
Cost:
£5
Audience:
Public
Editors:
Holly Omand,
Daniel Burton
