By Mark S. Weiner
Winner of the Grawemeyer Award for ideas bettering global Order
A vigorous, wide-ranging meditation on human improvement that provides superb classes for the way forward for glossy individualism, The Rule of the Clan examines the constitutional rules and cultural associations of kin-based societies, from medieval Iceland to trendy Pakistan.
Mark S. Weiner, a professional in constitutional legislations and criminal heritage, indicates us that precise person freedom will depend on the life of a powerful nation devoted to the general public curiosity. within the absence of a fit country, he explains, people clearly are inclined to create felony buildings based now not on contributors yet quite on nuclear family teams. the fashionable liberal nation makes individualism attainable by way of maintaining this strong force in check―and we forget about the ongoing possibility to liberal values and associations at our peril. even as, for contemporary individualism to outlive, liberals also needs to recognize the profound social and mental merits the rule of thumb of the extended family offers and realize the loss humanity sustains in its transition to modernity.
Masterfully argued and choked with wealthy old element, Weiner's research speaks either to trendy liberal societies and to constructing countries riven via "clannism," together with Muslim societies within the wake of the Arab Spring.
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