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

• Autore: Deneen Patrick J. <1964->
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, Connecticut : , : Yale University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xxxi, 225 pages)
• Disciplina: 320.51
• Soggetto topico: Liberalism - History - 20th century
• Classificazione: MS 4675
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-220) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction : The end of liberalism -- Unsustainable liberalism -- United individualism and statism -- Liberalism as anticulture -- Technology and the loss of liberty -- Liberalism against liberal arts -- The new aristocracy -- The degradation of citizenship -- Conclusion : Liberty after liberalism.
• Sommario/riassunto: Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Why Liberalism Failed
• ISBN: 9780300231878; 9780300223446
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910820721603321
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