UID:
almafu_9960947687302883
Format:
1 online resource (xxxi, 225 pages)
ISBN:
9780300231878
,
9780300223446
Series Statement:
Politics and Culture
Content:
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.
Note:
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.
,
In English.
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
Keywords:
Electronic books.
DOI:
10.12987/9780300231878
URL:
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URL:
Yale scholarship online
