This week, Christine Sypnowich published her latest piece of public philosophy, , in Aeon. And her book, The Concept of Socialist Law (Oxford University Press, 1990) was the subject of an essay in Jacobin, , authored by Matt McManus.
In , Sypnowich argues that “Liberal philosophy has clipped the wings of the egalitarian ideal. We should return to the bolder ideals of Iris Murdoch.” In , McManus writes that “The payoff from Sypnowich’s reflections on rights is considerable, not least because it breaks down some conventional binaries. … The Concept of Socialist Law deserves a second look as a hidden late twentieth-century gem, filled to the brim with provocations and perceptive inquiries.”