TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deneen,Patrick J.
TI  - Why liberalism failed
SN  - 9780300223446
U1  - 320.51 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - New Haven, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - History
KW  - Political science
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Foreword; James Davison Hunter and John M. Owen IV --; Introduction: the end of liberalism --; Unsustainable liberalism --; Uniting individualism and statism --; Liberalism as anticulture --; Technology and the loss of liberty --; Liberalism against liberal arts --; The new aristocracy --; The degradation of citizenship --; Conclusion: liberty after liberalism
N2  - "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
ER  -