Patrick Deneen on Why Liberalism Failed
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The Politics of Freedom and the Limits of Politics
The late Jean bethga elstein delivered lectures in 19 95 called am augustine a and the politics ofand the limits of politics. In re reading this book and writing a new preface for this book, it did strike me that one of the odd consequences of this liberal project was a kind of lowering of the horizon of what we thought possible. What i see to day is a kind of growing sort o almost pessimism, a kind of despair about politics. That seems to be the flip side of this coin.
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