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Deneen, Patrick J., 1964-
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Liberalism.
Liberalism -- History.
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Deneen, Patrick J., 1964-
Liberalism.
Liberalism -- History.
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Why liberalism failed / Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV.
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Deneen, Patrick J., 1964-
Yale University Press, 2018.
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320
.51
D392w
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Liberalism.
Liberalism -- History.
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9780300223446 (hc.)
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xix, 225 p. ; 22 cm.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.
Contents:
The end of liberalism -- Unsustainable liberalism -- Uniting individualism and statism -- Liberalism as anticulture -- Technology and the loss of liberty -- Liberalism against liberal arts -- The new aristocracy -- The degradation of citizenship -- 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, 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. Deneen offers a 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.
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