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Book SynopsisHow our shifting sense of "what's normal" defines the character of democracy
Trade Review“Sunstein is admirably alert to the fragilities of liberal democracy.”—Lawrence Douglas,
Times Literary Supplement“The book as a whole offers us more insight into the mind of Sunstein. . . . It is an interesting mind which mulls mainly on the formation and maintenance of democracy.”—Lennard Davis,
Times Higher Education Supplement“Legal scholar Cass Sunstein asks: how does normality relate to past and present behaviour, society and government? Its power, he argues cogently, stems mostly from our responsiveness to others’ words and actions, influenced by our own ‘preference falsification, diverse thresholds and interdependencies.’”—Andrew Robinson,
Nature“Provocative, insightful, and original essays on the power of normality, by one of the great social thinkers of this or any other generation.”—Daniel Gilbert, author of the
New York Times best-seller
Stumbling on Happiness“What if our constitution has nothing to do with the Constitution? In this extraordinary new book, perhaps the leading legal academic of our time places a new problem at the center of the challenge of self-government: How does truth navigate the minefields of the normal? This is exactly the moment when we might muster the strength to be different, maybe even better.”—Lawrence Lessig, author of
They Don’t Represent Us
