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Why liberalism failed
- Title
- Why liberalism failed / Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV.
- Author
- Deneen, Patrick J., 1964-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- ©2018
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- Description
- xix, 225 pages; 22 cm
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Politics and culture
- Uniform Title
- Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.
- Language (note)
- Text in English.
- 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.
- Call Number
- JFD 18-1347
- ISBN
- 0300223447
- 9780300223446
- LCCN
- 2017937443
- 14008728
- OCLC
- 982561170
- Author
- Deneen, Patrick J., 1964- author.
- Title
- Why liberalism failed / Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV.
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
- ©2018
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Politics and culturePolitics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.
- Language
- Text in English.
- Added Author
- Hunter, James Davison, 1955- writer of foreword.Owen, John M. (John Malloy), 1962- writer of foreword.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 14008728
- Research Call Number
- JFD 18-1347