Liberal Modernity and Its Adversaries: Freedom, Liberalism and Anti-Liberalism in the 21st CenturyThis is a book about modern liberal society and its adversaries. The book rediscovers and rehabilitates much maligned, especially in America, liberalism as the ideal system of liberty in relation to anti-liberalism as one of un-freedom. It rediscovers liberal modernity as a free, equal and just social system and time, thus most compatible with and enhancing of human civilization ushering in the 21st century. It exposes anti-liberal adversaries, especially conservatism, as ideologies and systems most inappropriate with and destructive of civilization. The book rediscovers liberal modernity as the master process and destination of Western civilization, and its anti-liberal adversaries, notably conservatism, as the ghosts of a dead past. The anti-liberal rumors of the 'death' of liberalism are 'greatly exaggerated'. |
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Liberal Modernity and Its Adversaries: Freedom, Liberalism and Anti ... Milan Zafirovski Limited preview - 2007 |
Liberal Modernity and Its Adversaries: Freedom, Liberalism, and Anti ... Milan Zafirovski No preview available - 2009 |
Liberal Modernity and Its Adversaries: Freedom, Liberalism and Anti ... Milan Zafirovski No preview available - 2007 |
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