{"product_id":"the-anatomy-of-antiliberalism-9780674031852","title":"The Anatomy of Antiliberalism","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiberal: spoken in a certain tone  heard more and more often lately  it summons up permissiveness  materialism  rootlessness  skepticism  relativism run rampant. How has liberalism  the grand democratic ideal  come to be a dirty word? This book shows us what antiliberalism means in the modern worldwhere it comes from  whom it serves  and why it speaks with such a forceful  if ever-changing  voice.  In the past  in a battle pitting one offspring of eighteenth-century rationalism against another  Marxism has been liberalisms best known and most vociferous opponent. But with the fall of Communism  the voices of ethnic particularism  communitarianism  and religious fundamentalisma tradition Stephen Holmes traces to Joseph de Maistrehave become louder in rejection of the Enlightenment  failing to distinguish between the descendants of Karl Marx and Adam Smith. Holmes uses the tools of the political theorist and the intellectual historian to expose the philosophical underpinnings of antiliberalism in its nonmarxist guise. Examining the works of some of liberalisms severest criticsincluding Maistre  Carl Schmitt  Leo Strauss  and Alasdair MacIntyreHolmes provides  in effect  a readers guide to antiliberal culture  in all its colorful and often seductive  however nefarious  variety. As much a mindset as a theory  as much a sensibility as an argument  antiliberalism appears here in its diverse efforts to pit spiritual truths and communal bonds against a perceived cultural decay and moral disintegration. This corrosion of the social fabricrather than the separation of powers  competitive elections  a free press  religious tolerance  public budgets  and judicial controls on the policeis what the antiliberal forces see as the core of liberal politics. Against this picture  Holmes outlines the classical liberal arguments most often misrepresented by the enemies of liberalism and most essential to the future of democracy.  Constructive as well as critical  this book helps us see what liberalism is and must be  and why it must and always will engender deep misgivings along with passionate commitment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45665882439733,"sku":"ByrdShop_0674031857","price":75.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780674031852.jpg?v=1782412384","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-anatomy-of-antiliberalism-9780674031852","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}