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Author Deneen, Patrick J., 1964-, author

Title Why liberalism failed / Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 225 pages.)
Series Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)
Contents Introduction The end of liberalism -- One. Unsustainable liberalism -- Two. Uniting individualism and statism -- Three. Liberalism as anticulture -- Four. Technology and the loss of liberty -- Five. Liberalism against liberal arts -- Six. The new aristocracy -- Seven. The degradation of citizenship -- Conclusion Liberty after liberalism
Summary "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 Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-219) and index
Notes Text in English
Description based on print version record
Subject Liberalism
Liberalism -- History
Form Electronic book
Author EBSCOhost
ISBN 9780300231878 (electronic bk.)
0300231873 (electronic bk.)