Why Liberalism Failed (Politics and Culture)
Why Liberalism Failed (Politics and Culture) by Patrick J. Deneen
English | January 9th, 2018 | ASIN: B078871BC2, ISBN: 0300223447 | 248 pages | EPUB | 0.31 MB
English | January 9th, 2018 | ASIN: B078871BC2, ISBN: 0300223447 | 248 pages | EPUB | 0.31 MB
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.
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