Why Liberalism Failed Patrick J. Deneen

Why Liberalism Failed

Author: Patrick J. Deneen
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Book Title
Why Liberalism Failed
Author
Patrick J. Deneen
ISBN
9780300240023
"One of the most important political books of 2018."--Rod Dreher, American Conservative "Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."--President Barack Obama 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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Patrick J. DeneenPublisher: Yale University PressPublished: 02/26/2019ISBN: 9780300240023Pages: 264Weight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
"One of the most important political books of 2018."--Rod Dreher, American Conservative

"Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."--President Barack Obama

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Patrick J. Deneen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02/26/2019
ISBN: 9780300240023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d
"One of the most important political books of 2018."--Rod Dreher, American Conservative

"Why Liberalism Failed offers cogent insights into the loss of meaning and community that many in the West feel, issues that liberal democracies ignore at their own peril."--President Barack Obama

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Patrick J. Deneen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02/26/2019
ISBN: 9780300240023
Pages: 264
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.50w x 0.90d