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Liberal Justice and Particular Identity: Cavell, Emerson, Rawls
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The Arizona Quarterly
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January 1, 2008
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FOR THE LIBERAL TRADITION, justice and identity appear both difficult to relate and inextricably intertwined. After years of contestatory identity politics, liberalism still proffers Americans a paradoxical national ideology that construes these terms as mutually exclusive. Identity, prejudice, and discrimination stand opposed to universality, equity, and freedom. Liberalism's central tenet, reaffirmed from Locke through Kant, to Ralph Waldo Emerson and John Rawls, holds that justice dissolves all particularities before a universally shared and immanent lawfulness. Even Emerson's most ethereal affirmations rhyme with liberalism's core beliefs. "Within man," as he wrote in "The Over-Soul," ...
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