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Reinterpreting Libertarianism: New Directions in Libertarian Studies book cover

1st Edition

Reinterpreting Libertarianism New Directions in Libertarian Studies

Edited By Łukasz Dominiak, Igor Wysocki, Stanisław Wójtowicz, Dawid Megger Copyright 2026
256 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

256 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This volume provides a thorough reconsideration of libertarian theory, offering novel perspectives that challenge established assumptions and initiate new directions for philosophical, legal and economic investigation. By tackling such topics as voluntariness, dignity and inalienability of rights, game theory, healthcare, and the political relevance of monarchy, the chapters provide readers... Read more

About the editors

List of contributors

Introduction. Polish Libertarian Scholarship and New Directions in the Libertarian Research (Łukasz Dominiak, Stanisław Wójtowicz, Igor Wysocki)

  1. Principle of voluntary transfer and its surprising consequences for the libertarian theory of justice (Łukasz Dominiak)
  2. An economic analysis of the libertarian legal system (Igor Wysocki)
  3. Libertarianism, Thomism and atomism: social ontology, legal institutions, and economic outcomes (Dawid Megger)
  4. Weakly absolute rights, minimising infringements, and the minimal state (Stanisław Wójtowicz)
  5. Towards libertarian dignitarianism (Paweł Nowakowski)
  6. Strict liability, fault principle, and libertarianism: towards a reformulation of the Rothbardian theory of legal liability (Halina Šimo)
  7. Against libertarian slavery (Patryk Trzcionka)
  8. Nonaggression, Freedom, and Argumentation Ethics: Avoiding Circularity (Norbert Slenzok)
  9. Should Big Tech be regulated? Arguments from social harms and a commonsense rebuttal (Bartłomiej Chomański)
  10. Anarcho-capitalism, monarchy, and the Problem of Libertarian Political Strategy  (Łukasz Święcicki)
  11. Methods of recognizing private law societies in diplomatic relations (Jakub Juszczak)
  12. Evolutionary game theory, the social contract, and libertarianism (Miłosz Ślepowroński)
  13. Fully private health care – an attempt at an outline (Stanisław Wójtowicz, Kamil Rozynek)

Index

Biography

Łukasz Dominiak is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland and a Fellow of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, Auburn, Alabama, United States.

Igor Wysocki is a Ph.D candidate affiliated with Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, Poland. His main interests revolve around philosophy of economics, rights theory, and libertarianism. His contribution to libertarian scholarship mainly involve the papers probing the moralized notion of voluntariness, as understood in libertarianism. He also boasts several papers co-authored with Walter Block.

Stanisław Wójtowicz has a doctorate in literary studies. He is currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at the Doctoral School of Humanities, Theology and Arts at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. His research interests include political libertarianism and the economic theory of the state and stateless orders.

Dawid Megger is an Assistant Professor at the Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń, where he teaches microeconomics and public choice theory, among others. His research interests revolve around economic theory, methodology, and political economy.

 

"All of the essays are excellent and display analytic talent and wide research...Reinterpreting Libertarianism deserves the attention of all friends of freedom in Generation Z as well as in earlier generations."

David Gordon, The Misesian

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