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

By: Deneen, Patrick J, 1964- [author.]Contributor(s): Hunter, James Davison, 1955- [writer of foreword.] | Owen, John M. (John Malloy), 1962- [writer of foreword.]Series: Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: xix, 225 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300223447; 9780300223446Subject(s): Liberalism | Liberalism -- HistoryLOC classification: JC 574 | .D473 2018
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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"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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