Candice Delmas, A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (Oxford UP, 2018)
According to a long tradition in political philosophy, there are certain conditions under which citizens may rightly disobey a law enacted by a legitimate political authority.\xa0 That is, it is common for political philosophers to recognize the permissibility of civil disobedience, even under broadly just political conditions.\xa0 There are, of course, longstanding debates over how to distinguish civil from uncivil disobedience, what forms civil disobedience may take, and the difference between civil disobedience and other kinds of principled lawbreaking (such as conscientious refusal).\xa0 Yet the consensus seems to be that whenever disobedience is permissible, it must also be enacted within the constraints of civility.\n\nIn her new book, A Duty to Resist: When Disobedience Should Be Uncivil (Oxford University Press, 2018),\xa0Candice Delmas challenges this consensus. \xa0She develops an argument according to which standard arguments for the general obligation to obey the law also permit forms of principled lawbreaking that go beyond standard constraints of civility.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law