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Why Liberalism Failed

By: Patrick J. Deneen
Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
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Summary

Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded?

Of the three dominant ideologies of the 20th 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.

©2018 Patrick J. Deneen (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
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What happens if history did not end?

A culture war. Or perhaps a cultural v acultural war. Good contribution to the debate.

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the author shouts loudly

gave up after an hour as the author uses pompous phrases, giving the impression that he needs to shout his message as maybe his point is more nuanced than he wants to let on. maybe it gets better later in the book, but I'm afraid I have run out of patience to find out.

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Reading so dreadful it ruined the book

As hard as I tried i couldn't listen beyond the second hour of this audiobook. The reader is truly dreadful. Try the print version instead.

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Food for thought

An iteresting thesis that was powerfully argued. I found the narration a tad monotonous though

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Stressful reader.

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