Liberalism and its discontents / Francis Fukuyama.
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022Description: xiv, 178 pages ; 22 cmISBN:- 9780374606718
- 320.51 23/eng/20220206
- JC574 .F85 2022
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300 - 399 | Hanover Public Library Shelves | 320.51 FUKU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 31906001221416 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-170) and index.
It's no secret that liberalism didn't always live up to its own ideals. In America, many people were denied equality before the law. Who counted as full human beings worthy of universal rights was contested for centuries, and only recently has this circle expanded to include women, African Americans, LGBTQ+ people, and others. Conservatives complain that liberalism empties the common life of meaning. As the renowned political philosopher Francis Fukuyama shows in Liberalism and Its Discontents, the principles of liberalism have also, in recent decades, been pushed to new extremes by both the right and the left: neoliberals made a cult of economic freedom, and progressives focused on identity over human universality as central to their political vision. The result, Fukuyama argues, has been a fracturing of our civil society and an increasing peril to our democracy.
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