Why Liberalism Failed

Patrick J. Deneen offers a provocative intellectual critique of modern liberalism, arguing that the ideology which promised individual freedom and prosperity has exhausted itself in its own contradictions. The author examines how liberalism, paradoxically, has resulted in the centralization of power, social atomization and cultural and environmental degradation.

With philosophical erudition and historical analysis, Deneen does not propose simple rejection, but a fundamental questioning of liberal assumptions and a reflection on alternative paths for organizing political and social life.

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