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Why liberalism failed / Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)Publication details: �2018 Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xix, 225 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0300223447
  • 9780300223446
Subject(s):
Contents:
Introduction: The end of liberalism -- One. Unsustainable liberalism -- Two. Uniting individualism and statism -- Three. Liberalism as anticulture -- Four. Technology and the loss of liberty -- Five. Liberalism against liberal arts -- Six. The new aristocracy -- Seven. The degradation of citizenship -- Conclusion: Liberty after liberalism.
Summary: "Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century--fascism, communism, and liberalism--only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure."--Publisher's description.
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Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?



" Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."--President Barack Obama



"Deneen's book is valuable because it focuses on today's central issue. The important debates now are not about policy. They are about the basic values and structures of our social order."--David Brooks, New York Times



Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century--fascism, communism, and liberalism--only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.

Text in English.

"Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century--fascism, communism, and liberalism--only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure."--Publisher's description.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.

Introduction: The end of liberalism -- One. Unsustainable liberalism -- Two. Uniting individualism and statism -- Three. Liberalism as anticulture -- Four. Technology and the loss of liberty -- Five. Liberalism against liberal arts -- Six. The new aristocracy -- Seven. The degradation of citizenship -- Conclusion: Liberty after liberalism.

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