Why Liberalism Failed - Couverture souple

Deneen, Patrick J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0300240023 ISBN 13 : 9780300240023

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Patrick J. Deneen is Professor of Political Science and holds the David A. Potenziani Memorial College Chair of Constitutional Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His previous books include The Odyssey of Political Theory, Democratic Faith, and a number of edited volumes. He lives in South Bend, IN.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300240023
• ISBN 13: 9780300240023
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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