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What is freedom? How is freedom related to justice, law, property, peace, and prosperity? Tom Palmer has spent a lifetime-as a scholar, teacher, journalist, and activist-asking and answering these questions. Since its publication in 2009, Realizing Freedom has been the recipient of wide acclaim, both in the United States and around the world. Now, this expanded edition adds even greater depth and dimension to the book, with newly added essays that confirm Palmer's role as one of liberty's most articulate advocates. A tireless educator, Palmer has traveled the world to bring the message of freedom to people on every continent. At home, he has been an incisive commentator on current affairs as well as an original and innovative thinker in political philosophy. The essays in this volume are drawn from his decades of work on the theory of justice, multiculturalism, democracy and limited government, globalization, the law and economics of patents and copyrights, among many other topics, and reflect the many levels on which Palmer has promoted individual liberty.

What is freedom? How is freedom related to justice, law, property, peace, and prosperity? Tom Palmer has spent a lifetime-as a scholar, teacher, journalist, and activist-asking and answering these questions. Since its publication in 2009, Realizing Freedom has been the recipient of wide acclaim, both in the United States and around the world. Now, this expanded edition adds even greater depth and dimension to the book, with newly added essays that confirm Palmer's role as one of liberty's most articulate advocates. A tireless educator, Palmer has traveled the world to bring the message.

Positivism is argued to have arrived at a dead end; even within the citadels of economics, positivism's rivals, the Austrian economists, are vigorously pressing their claims. While Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method (New York: Crossroads Publishing Co, 1982 [1960]) first appeared before much of this revolt was apparent, its message is all the more powerful now. Gadamer's ideas bear many similarities to those of recent philosophers of science, but they have far broader applications. His concept of interpretation is examined. Gadamer takes hermeneutics far further than its other expositors have, & provides a richer notion of rationality; his discussion of hermeneutical experience leads him to an examination of experience in general, in which he appropriates the horizons of Aristotle & G. W. F. Hegel & brings out the truth of both. The essential characteristic of the hermeneutical experience is that it is experience of an other. The social implications of Gadamer's thought are considered. Within the hermeneutic enterprise, the necessity of criticism is a moment of understanding; that same enterprise can produce a standard of free intercourse among rational beings to guide that criticism. F. S. J. Ledgister