{"id":4996,"date":"2021-11-14T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/?p=4996"},"modified":"2021-11-14T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2021-11-15T01:55:10","slug":"sunstein-on-baudelaires-defiant-liberalism-casssunstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/2021\/11\/14\/sunstein-on-baudelaires-defiant-liberalism-casssunstein\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunstein on Baudelaire’s Defiant Liberalism @CassSunstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School, has published “Get Drunk”!: Baudelaire’s Defiant Liberalism. <\/a>Here is the abstract.<\/p>\n

We live in a period in which liberalism is under considerable pressure.Can poems be liberal? Baudelaire\u2019s Enivrez-Vous captures something essential about the most appealing forms of liberalism, and about its underlying spirit (captured, in different ways, by John Stuart Mill, Walt Whitman, and Bob Dylan as well): its insistence on freedom of choice, on the diversity of tastes and preferences, and on human agency. The poem is liberal in its exuberance \u2013 its pleasure in its own edginess, its defiance, its sheer rebelliousness, its sense of mischief, its implicit laughter, its love of life and what it has to offer. It is the opposite of dutiful. It is far more exuberant than Mill\u2019s On Liberty, but it is exuberant in the same way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Download the essay from SSRN at the link.<\/p>\n\n

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Cass R. Sunstein, Harvard Law School; Harvard Kennedy School, has published “Get Drunk”!: Baudelaire’s Defiant Liberalism. Here is the abstract. We live in a period in which liberalism is under considerable pressure.Can poems be...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[735,545,132],"class_list":["post-4996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-and-literature","tag-charles-baudelaire","tag-law-and-literature","tag-news"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pasVL2-1iA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4998,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4996\/revisions\/4998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgehogsandfoxes.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}