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

Author/creator Deneen, Patrick J., 1964- editor.
Format Book
PublicationNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
Copyright Date©2018
Descriptionxix, 225 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Liberalism.
Liberalism--History.

SeriesPolitics and culture
Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.) ^A1354844
Contents Foreword / James Davidson Hunter and John M. Owen IV -- Introduction: 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 -- Conclusion: liberty after liberalism.
Abstract "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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index.
ISBN0300223447 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
ISBN9780300223446 (hardcover ; alk. paper)

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