Daniel J. Mahoney The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies 9781610171687

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Автор: Daniel J. Mahoney
Название: The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies
ISBN: 9781610171687
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

Политология и политическая философия

Политические идеологии

Консерватизм и правоцентристские демократические идеологии

Политическая система: демократия

ISBN-10: 1610171683
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 224
Вес: 0.39 кг.
Дата издания: 30.09.2022
Серия: Political Science
Язык: English
Размер: 229 x 152
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies,Political ideologies,Political science & theory,Political structures: democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Conservatism & Liberalism
Подзаголовок: Defending democracy against its modern enemies
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Saving Democracy from Its Enemies- from Itself

Western democracy has become increasingly estranged from its crucial historical, political, spiritual, and cultural prerequisites- what author Daniel J. Mahoney calls “the conservative foundations of the liberal order.” In this eloquent and insightful work of political philosophy and cultural criticism, Mahoney offers a vigorous defense of these foundations, and shows the dangers of identifying liberty with a radical project of social and cultural emancipation.

The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order takes particular aim at partisans of “pure democracy,” who have transformed the principles of liberty and equality into an unreflective dogma. By reducing liberty to a vague affirmation of equality and individual autonomy, Mahoney shows, such partisans undermine those “contents of life” -, patriotism, philosophical reflection, family and social life- enrich human existence and give purpose to human freedom. What we need instead is a conservative-minded liberalism.

Calling on the wisdom of Winston Churchill, Edmund Burke, Alexis de Tocqueville, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Raymond Aron, and other exemplary leaders and thinkers, Mahoney addresses a wide range of questions related to liberty in the contemporary world. He brilliantly analyzes the task of the democratic statesman; the need for prudence, sobriety, and civic courage in confronting the totalitarian enemies of the West; the ties that bind religion and democratic liberty; democracy’s tendency to squander its own inheritance in frenzied efforts to establish a human order that is more and more “democratic”; the follies of the postmodern “culture of repudiation”; the reasons so many intellectuals indulge totalitarianism and terrorism; and much more.

Rejecting the dual temptations of utopianism and despair, Mahoney defends self-government- understood- both democracy’s enemies and its all-too-numerous “immoderate friends.” The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order upholds the rich civilized inheritance that allows human beings to lead free and decent lives together.

The Conservative Foundations of the Liberal Order: Defending Democracy Against Its Modern Enemies, Daniel J. Mahoney