Equality By Default: An Essay On Modernity As Confinement

Equality By Default: An Essay On Modernity As Confinement (Crosscurrents)
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For most of our contemporaries, to speak of modernity is to think immediately of liberty, equality, and democracyâ€”and to assume that all is well. But things are not so simple. For while the culture of modernity has spread gradually throughout the West for roughly two hundred years, it accelerated in the 1960s in such a way as to undergo a subtle transformation. Hence the paradox of the world we live in: by all appearances the "rights of man" have emerged triumphant, yet at the same time they have been emptied of substance because of their radicalization. Modern man thus finds himself isolated and ensnared. By right, his autonomy should strengthen him; but in fact, he has been dispossessed of himself. The great artifice of our time is to give conformism the mask of liberty.
Philippe BÃ©nÃ©ton, a prominent French religious conservative, has long meditated on Tocqueville, and Equality by Default is Tocquevillian in that it does not offer a partisan polemic, but rather paints a picture of contemporary lifeâ€”a picture that is also a guide for discernment for those who have a difficult time "seeing" contemporary liberalism for what it is. Artfully translated by Ralph Hancock, Equality by Default offers a unique and strikingly insightful account of the late-modern mind.
Country USA
Brand Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Manufacturer Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Binding Paperback
ReleaseDate 2004-07-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781932236330

Country	USA
Brand	Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Manufacturer	Intercollegiate Studies Institute
Binding	Paperback
ReleaseDate	2004-07-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781932236330

Equality By Default: An Essay On Modernity As Confinement (Crosscurrents)

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