It claims that the role of dissenting activist is critical to collective health and wellbeing.
Although in his late 60s, he is relatively new to politics and has not handled well the difficult role of dissenting leader-in-waiting.
Strangely, when these visionaries were at their peak production, Susan Sontag in the late 1960s assumed the radical Modernist role of dissenting on the basis that she saw historicism in art dangerously displacing the more urgent enterprise of "system-building", that is accounting not for "what is", but futuristically assuring what "ought to be".
In a lecture last week to the Supreme Court Historical Society, Justice Sandra Day O'Connor -- whose position at the court's center of gravity makes her an infrequent dissenter, with only nine dissenting votes last term -- discussed the role of dissent.
He was a bit more candid about his role as a dissenting voice in a recent radio interview with Terry Gross: "For one thing, people pay less attention," he lamented, "and you have the law going the way that you think is wrong".
His books give serious and original treatments of populist dissent, the role of mass media, the struggles of liberalism and conservatism, and the powers and limits of the presidency.
While neither man engaged in a formal debate, the two exchanged views on a variety of issues: the extent and degree to which a theologian may dissent, the role of the church as the authority on church doctrine and teachings, and the role of Catholic scholars in bringing about change.
Since minorities may themselves reflect this 'hidden will,' Maritain also recognised the important role to be played by dissenting minorities.
Her research has explored the role of the lower courts in doctrinal development and the informational value of dissenting opinions.
The central role for the ECJ has been endorsed by EU leaders, but there are dissenting voices.
