Why Liberalism Failed
epub | 312 KB | English | Author :Patrick J. Deneen | 9780300231878 | 2018 | Yale University Press

Book Description :

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?
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 fla but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.

Category : | Political Philosophy, 21st Century World History, Income Inequality