This Is Not Normal

The Politics of Everyday Expectations

Cass R. Sunstein

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English

Yale University
23 March 2021

Cultural studies; Sociology: customs & traditions; Politics & government; Political science & theory; Central government

This sharp and engaging collection of essays by leading governmental scholar Cass R. Sunstein examines shifting understandings of what’s normal, and how those shifts account for the feminist movement, the civil rights movement, the rise of Adolf Hitler, the founding itself, the rise of gun rights, the response to COVID-19, and changing understandings of liberty. Prevailing norms include the principle of equal dignity, the idea of not treating the press as an enemy of the people, and the social unacceptability of open expressions of racial discrimination. But norms are very different from laws. They arise and change in response to individual and collective action. Exploring Nazism, #MeToo, the work of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, constitutional amendments, pandemics, and the influence of Ayn Rand, Sunstein reveals how norms ultimately determine the shape of government in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.

By: Cass R. Sunstein
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 680g
ISBN: 9780300253504
ISBN 10: 0300253508
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 23 March 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Cass R. Sunstein is the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard. He received the 2018 Holberg Prize from the Government of Norway, often described as the equivalent of the Nobel Prize for law and the humanities.

Reviews for This Is Not Normal: The Politics of Everyday Expectations

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