Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?
"One of the most important political books of 2018."—Rod Dreher, American Conservative
"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
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.
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