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Anatomy Of Antiliberalism
Stephen Holmes
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Description for Anatomy Of Antiliberalism
paperback. This work asks the question of why liberalism has become a dirty word, used to imply permissiveness, materialism, scepticism, and relativism. It shows what antiliberalism means in the modern world - where it comes from, whom it serves, and why it has become so powerful. Num Pages: 352 pages, index. BIC Classification: JPFK; JPFM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568.
Liberal: spoken in a certain tone, heard more and more often lately, it summons up permissiveness, materialism, rootlessness, skepticism, relativism run rampant. How has liberalism, the grand democratic ideal, come to be a dirty word? This book shows us what antiliberalism means in the modern world—where it comes from, whom it serves, and why it speaks with such a forceful, if ever-changing, voice.
In the past, in a battle pitting one offspring of eighteenth-century rationalism against another, Marxism has been liberalism’s best known and most vociferous opponent. But with the fall of Communism, the voices of ethnic particularism, communitarianism, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674031852
SKU
V9780674031852
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About Stephen Holmes
Stephen Holmes is Walter E. Meyer Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
Reviews for Anatomy Of Antiliberalism
Holmes is a brilliant polemicist and a sparkling writer...The chapters [he] devotes to dead and hard opponents of liberalism are only a warm-up for his zestfully nasty attacks on soft and living opponents of liberalism...Surely the ideas being discussed here should get people angry and are worth fighting about.
Alan Wolfe
New Republic
Holmes' purpose is both ... Read more
Alan Wolfe
New Republic
Holmes' purpose is both ... Read more