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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.

ISBN-13: 9780300240023

Media Type: Paperback(Reprint)

Publisher: Yale University Press

Publication Date: 02-26-2019

Pages: 264

Product Dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.20(h) x 0.90(d)

Series: Politics and Culture

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.

Table of Contents

Foreword James Davison Hunter John M. Owen IV vii

Preface to the Paperback Edition xi

Preface xxv

Acknowledgments xxix

Introduction: The End of Liberalism 1

1 Unsustainable Liberalism 21

2 Uniting Individualism and Statism 43

3 Liberalism as Anticulture 64

4 Technology and the Loss of Liberty 91

5 Liberalism against Liberal Arts 110

6 The New Aristocracy 131

7 The Degradation of Citizenship 154

Conclusion: Liberty after Liberalism 179

Notes 199

Bibliography 213

Index 221