Politics and culture (New Haven, Conn.)

"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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Introduction: End of liberalism --

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Unsustainable liberalism --

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Uniting individualism and statism --

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Liberalism as anticulture --

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Technology and the loss of liberty --

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Liberalism against liberal arts --

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New aristocracy --

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Degradation of citizenship -- Conclusion: Liberty after liberalism