After Liberalism : Mass Democracy in the Managerial State /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1999
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| Series: | New forum books.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Summary: | 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 these historical facts, however. He builds on them to show 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 |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (200 pages } |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400822898 1400822890 9781400811816 1400811813 1282935224 9781282935228 9786612935220 6612935227 0691089825 9780691089829 |
| Language: | English. |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 31, 2020). |
