Society as a department store : critical reflections on the liberal state
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Society as a department store : critical reflections on the liberal state
(Lexington books)(Religion, politics, and society in the new millennium)
Lexington Books, c2002
Available at 4 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references
Contents of Works
- Society as a department store
- The trouble with toleration
- Plato's two democracies
- On postmodern liberal conservatism
- Was Hayek an instrumentalist?
- The free market in a republic
- On communist illusion
- Intellectuals and communism
- Sir Isaiah Berlin : a naïve liberal
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Society as a Department Store Ryszard Legutko wrestles with the emancipatory ideology promulgated by postmodernists, libertarians, and liberal thinkers. Legutko argues that modern Western liberals have embraced a revolutionary ethic; they have turned their backs on their own cultural heritage, and used its political and ideological apparatus to destroy classical metaphysics and epistemology. The book considers the paradoxical implications of this state of affairs for Eastern European intellectuals arguing that, with the triumph of liberalism over communism, these intellectuals feel compelled to digest an ideology that shares many elements with the oppressive system from which they just liberated themselves. Based on hubris rather than genuine humane concerns, Legutko mourns not simply the loss of faith in classical Western culture, but the way in which that loss is becoming a central point of identity.
Table of Contents
Chapter 3 Society as a Department Store Chapter 4 The Trouble with Toleration Chapter 5 Plato's Two Democracies Chapter 6 On Postmodern Liberal Conservatism Chapter 7 Was Hayek an Instrumentalist? Chapter 8 The Free Market in a Republic Chapter 9 On Communist Illusion Chapter 10 Intellectuals and Communism Chapter 11 Sir Isaiah Berlin: A Naive Liberal
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