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Patrick Deneen on the Failure of Liberalism and the Importance of Relational Living

The Sacred

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The Failure of Liberalism

I wrote this book essentially saying that liberalism failed because liberalism has succeeded. Do you call yourself a communitarian? I suppose I've been sometimes called that by others. When I was in both undergraduate and graduate school, one of the main debates was communitarianism versus liberalism. But it struck me that communitarians at some level were almost always liberals.

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