Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future
by Patrick J. Deneen
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"From Notre Dame professor and author of Why Liberalism Failed comes a provocative call for replacing the tyranny of the self-serving liberal elite with conservative leaders aligned with the interests of the working class. Classical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy, creating an order in which individuals could create their own identities and futures. To some extent it did-but it has also demolished the traditions and institutions that nourished ordinary people and created show more a new and exploitative ruling class. This class's economic libertarianism, progressive values, and technocratic commitments have led them to rule for the benefit of the "few" at the expense of the "many," precipitating our current political crises. In Regime Change, Patrick Deneen proposes a bold plan for replacing the liberal elite and the ideology that created and empowered them. Grass-roots populist efforts to destroy the ruling class altogether are naive; what's needed is the strategic formation of a new elite devoted to a "pre-postmodern conservatism" and aligned with the interest of the "many." Their top-down efforts to form a new governing philosophy, ethos, and class could transform our broken regime from one that serves only the so-called meritocrats. Drawing on the oldest lessons of the western tradition but recognizing the changed conditions that arise in liberal modernity, Deneen offers a roadmap for these changes, offering hope for progress after "progress" and liberty after liberalism"-- show lessTags
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I read only about 1/4 of this book because it is mostly a collection of straw man arguments, quibbles about definitions, and unsubstantiated attributions of evil motives of liberals. It has some instructive value if you are trying to understand how the political right wing fringe thinks.
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Patrick J. Deneen is Associate Professor of Government and the inaugural Markos and Eleni Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Chair of Hellenic Studies at Georgetown University
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- Politics and Government, Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction
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- 320.52 — Society, government, & culture Political science Types of Government Political ideologies Conservatism
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- JC573 .D46 — Political Science Political theory Political theory. The state. Theories of the state Purpose, functions, and relations of the state
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