| Descript |
xix, 225 pages 22 cm |
| Series |
Politics and culture
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Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)
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| Content |
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
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| Note |
"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 |
| Subject |
Liberalism -- historia
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Liberalism -- History
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Liberalism
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Historia
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History
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| Classmark |
320.51
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Ocgc
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| Alt Auth |
Davison Hunter, James
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Owen IV, John M.
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| ISBN/ISSN |
9780300223446 |
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