Democratic Capitalism and Its DiscontentsISI Books, 2007 - 189 pages Despite the fall of its ideological enemies--the political messianisms of communism and national socialism--democratic capitalism faces extraordinary challenges in the new millennium, argues City Journal editor and South Park Conservatives author Brian C. Anderson in this thought-provoking new book. Not only has a fanatical form of Islam distrupted the peace and prosperity of the postcommunist era, which some had wrongly heralded as a liberal-democratic "end of history"; our free societies also remain haunted by internal demons--egalitarian fantasies, moral libertinism, an arid and unsustainable secularism, a suicide of culture. Yet nothing ordains the triumph of these demons over the democratic capitalist prospect, Anderson believes. Drawing on a rich anti-utopian tradition of political thought, he defends the real achievements of the free society against an array of critics, ranging from Jean-Paul Sartre to British anti-market conservative John Gray to the quietly authoritarian social democrat John Rawls to the postmodern Marxist and one-time terrorist Antonio Negri. Anderson pays particularly close attention to the United States, the democratic capitalist nation par excellence, showing how it differs from other liberal democracies in its robust religiosity, vigorous civil society, and constitutionalism--all under threat from the American Left. Finally, Anderson explores the thought of some of the deepest anti-utopian thinkers who are friends--albeit critical ones--of the modern regime of liberty, including the brilliant French political theorist Pierre Manent and the godfather of neoconservatism, Irving Kristol. Crisply and vividly presented, Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents is an essential guide to the conflicts of our time. |
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... responsibility , rampant illegitimacy , and high levels of sub- stance abuse , school failure , and crime . Welfare programs , losing sight of their clients ' real needs , became ends in them- selves , with bureaucratic constituencies ...
... responsibility , rampant illegitimacy , and high levels of sub- stance abuse , school failure , and crime . Welfare programs , losing sight of their clients ' real needs , became ends in them- selves , with bureaucratic constituencies ...
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... responsibility for rearing children . In either case , though on very different scales , one finds state Power vastly increased and individual liberties menaced or obliterated . In a social field in which there are but two actors ...
... responsibility for rearing children . In either case , though on very different scales , one finds state Power vastly increased and individual liberties menaced or obliterated . In a social field in which there are but two actors ...
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... responsibility and the hy- pertrophy of the bureaucracy and the centralized state in- stead of in relief to the hapless minorities it is pledged to serve , " says Robert Nisbet about a book Jouvenel published in 1952 called The Ethics ...
... responsibility and the hy- pertrophy of the bureaucracy and the centralized state in- stead of in relief to the hapless minorities it is pledged to serve , " says Robert Nisbet about a book Jouvenel published in 1952 called The Ethics ...
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Capitalism and the Suicide of Culture | 3 |
The Ineducable Left | 23 |
From State to Civil Society | 37 |
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