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After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Paul Edward Gottfried
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Description for After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
Paperback. Analyzes the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. This volume shows why it matters that the managerial state has replaced traditional liberalism: the new regimes of social engineers, he maintains, are elitists, and their rule is consensual only in the sense that it is unopposed by any widespread organized opposition. Series: New Forum Books. Num Pages: 200 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPA; JPFK; JPHV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 296.
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's liberals have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and lifestyle freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze ... Read more
In this trenchant challenge to social engineering, Paul Gottfried analyzes a patricide: the slaying of nineteenth-century liberalism by the managerial state. Many people, of course, realize that liberalism no longer connotes distributed powers and bourgeois moral standards, the need to protect civil society from an encroaching state, or the virtues of vigorous self-government. Many also know that today's liberals have far different goals from those of their predecessors, aiming as they do largely to combat prejudice, to provide social services and welfare benefits, and to defend expressive and lifestyle freedoms. Paul Gottfried does more than analyze ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
New Forum Books
Condition
New
Weight
295g
Number of Pages
200
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691089829
SKU
V9780691089829
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About Paul Edward Gottfried
Paul Edward Gottfried is Professor of Humanities at Elizabethtown College and author of, among other books, Carl Schmitt: Politics and Theory, The Search for Historical Meaning; and The Conservative Movement. Editor in chief of This World, he is also a senior editor of Telos and a contributing editor to Chronicles and Humanitas.
Reviews for After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
After Liberalism is no angry screed, but a dense, probing work full of insight from the author's seeming encyclopedic knowledge of Western thought.
World The central fact of the nineteenth century was the emergence of the working class. The central fact of the twentieth century is the emergence of a managerial New Class elite, reshaping all modern ... Read more
World The central fact of the nineteenth century was the emergence of the working class. The central fact of the twentieth century is the emergence of a managerial New Class elite, reshaping all modern ... Read more