In this imaginative exploration of modern legal culture, Lawrence
Friedman addresses how the contemporary idea of individual rights
has altered the legal systems and authority structures of Western
societies. Every aspect of law, he argues--from civil rights to
personal-injury litigation to divorce law--has been profoundly
reshaped, reflecting the power of this concept.
The new individualism is quite different from that of the
nineteenth century, which stressed self-control, discipline, and
traditional group values. Modern individualism focuses on the
individual as the starting and ending point of life and assumes a
wide zone of choice. Choice is vital, fundamental: the right to
develop oneself, to build up a life uniquely suited to oneself
through free, open selection among forms, models, and lifestyles.
With striking clarity and force, Friedman demonstrates how the new
individualism results from changes in the technological and social
framework of society. Loose, unconnected, free-floating, mobile:
this is the modern individual, at least in comparison with the
immediate past.
Written for the general reader as well as lawyers and legal
scholars, "The Republic of Choice" offers keen and original
observations about legal culture and the public consciousness that
informs and expresses it.
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