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Why Liberalism Failed by Patrick J. Deneen (2018, Hardcover)
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Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?. The important debates now are not about policy. They are about the basic values and structures of our social order.". 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.
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PublisherYale University Press
ISBN-100300223447
ISBN-139780300223446
eBay Product ID (ePID)237712858
Product Key Features
Book TitleWhy Liberalism Failed
Number of Pages248 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2018
TopicModern / 20th Century, Political, Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
GenrePhilosophy, Political Science, History
AuthorPatrick J. Deneen
Book SeriesPolitics and Culture Ser.
FormatHardcover
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Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight13.2 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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LCCN2017-937443
Reviews"This courageous and timely book is a major contribution to understanding the rude awakening in the Trump moment. It shows that we must transcend the death grip of the two oscillating poles of classical liberalism (of Republican and Democratic parties) and examine the deep assumptions that hold us captive. It also reveals that if we remain tied to liberalism's failure, more inequality, repression, and spiritual emptiness await us."--Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard, "This courageous and timely book is a major contribution to understanding the rude awakening in the Trump moment. It shows that we must transcend the death grip of the two oscillating poles of classical liberalism (of Republican and Democratic parties) and examine the deep assumptions that hold us captive. It also reveals that if we remain tied to liberalism's failure, more inequality, repression, and spiritual emptiness await us."--Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard , "A path-breaking book, boldly argued and expressed in terms that might justifiably be called prophetic in character."--Wilfred M. McClay, G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma "Liberalism is clearly in everybody's sights, and Why Liberalism Failed will be an important contributor to the conversation, suggesting that we cannot work within the existing paradigm anymore. The philosophers will not solve our problems; working with our neighbors will."--Joshua Mitchell, Professor of Political Theory, Georgetown University "Deneen writes with clarity, candor and superior scholarship to create one of the most absorbing political philosophy books of the past decade. No one who reads it, no one who considers its substance, will be able to think about the dynamics and the consequences of the American democratic experiment in quite the same way."--Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, author of Author of Strangers in a Strange Land "This courageous and timely book is a major contribution to understanding the rude awakening in the Trump moment. It shows that we must transcend the death grip of the two oscillating poles of classical liberalism (of Republican and Democratic parties) and examine the deep assumptions that hold us captive. It also reveals that if we remain tied to liberalism's failure, more inequality, repression, and spiritual emptiness await us."--Cornel West, Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy, Harvard "Patrick Deneen is a probing and gifted cultural critic, afire with controlled moral passion. Why Liberalism Failed provides a bracing antidote to the pieties of left and right by showing how an impoverished, bipartisan conception of liberty has imprisoned the public life it claims to have set free. One could not ask for a timelier or more necessary enrichment of our depleted political discourse."--Jackson Lears, Board of Governors Distinguished Professor of History, Rutgers University, "Deneen writes with clarity, candor and superior scholarship to create one of the most absorbing political philosophy books of the past decade. No one who reads it, no one who considers its substance, will be able to think about the dynamics and the consequences of the American democratic experiment in quite the same way."--Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, author of Author of Strangers in a Strange Land , "Deneen writes with clarity, candor and superior scholarship to create one of the most absorbing political philosophy books of the past decade. No one who reads it, no one who considers its substance, will be able to think about the dynamics and the consequences of the American democratic experiment in quite the same way."--Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, author of Author of Strangers in a Strange Land, "A path-breaking book, boldly argued and expressed in terms that might justifiably be called prophetic in character."--Wilfred M. McClay, G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma, "Liberalism is clearly in everybody's sights, and Why Liberalism Failed will be an important contributor to the conversation, suggesting that we cannot work within the existing paradigm anymore. The philosophers will not solve our problems; working with our neighbors will."--Joshua Mitchell, Professor of Political Theory, Georgetown University
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal320.51
Synopsis"One of the most important political books of 2018."--Rod Dreher, American Conservative 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., Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? " 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 "Deneen's book is valuable because it focuses on today's central issue. The important debates now are not about policy. They are about the basic values and structures of our social order."--David Brooks, New York Times 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.
LC Classification NumberJC574
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