Freedom of speech. 1. If you hit me I have the freedom to whimper. 2. If you bark I have the freedom to bark back. Unless you are my boss or a cop etc. 3. Freedom to contribute to the richness of the public realm. Except we are all to distracted by electronic voices to listen to each other.
I don't know anything about the policy issues involved, but I'm not so thrilled about this presentation, starting with the destructive humility of its Kafka-perface. Geuss doesn't have to trumpet his knowledge, but it's worse than pointless to pretend that he has nothing to teach his audience.
@@jonathanbailey1597 Just his early book on critical theory. I took some classes with him at the University of Chicago in the old days. If you're at Cambridge send him my regards, we used to talk fairly often so he might remember me.
Berel Dov Lerner Read his stuff! It’s fantastic. His humility is not meant to be self effacing, it’s meant to push the onus probandi onto action. He’s written over 10 monographs, if you studied with him, you’ll really appreciate his work.
@@jonathanbailey1597 I'm sure his later books are good, I still find the Kafka intro annoying. Better he should have opened with one of the Sidney Morgenbesser anecdotes he used to tell.
As a libertarian I can't really disagree with much of what he's said. He looks at the weak, divided private sphere and sees abuses and imperfections. The problem is he completely ignores exactly the same abuses and imperfections, on a much larger scale, perpetrated by the monopoly sovereign state by which he is employed and which he seems to see his purpose as being to defend and promote.
