Why liberalism failed, Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV
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Why liberalism failed, Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-219) and index
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no index present
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non fiction
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Why liberalism failed
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8165781982561170
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Patrick J. Deneen ; foreword by James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV
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Politics and culture
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"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
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