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Beyond the Global Culture War (Paperback, New Ed)
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Beyond the Global Culture War (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Global Horizons
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"Beyond the Global Culture War" is a broad-ranging political,
historical, and philosophical account of the clash between liberal
modernity and the forces that resist it. The book starts by
identifying four ethoses, or self-understandings, that have
contended in all civilizations through history. It shows that
liberal modernity amounts to an upending of history, the disruptive
rise of one of those four ethoses to unprecedented dominance in
public culture. In its first third, the book traces how the ethos
that underlies liberalism managed to break past age-old checks on
it, through a series of ideological maneuvers between the late
nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. Then it turns to the global
culture war today. On one side is the liberal vision of an "end of
history," of markets, moral relativism, and technocratic rule. On
the other is the strident backlash from Islamists, populists, the
Christian Right, Chinese and Hindu nationalists, and the like.
The book argues that today's resistance is doomed to fail for two
reasons. First, all versions of it are insular, and lack the
universal appeal that would let them meet global liberal culture on
its own scale. Second, they have a peculiar moralizing flatness
that means they cannot draw on the rich high-culture currents of
the past civilizations they claim to defend. The book's final
chapters lay out an alternative vision of a truly cosmopolitan and
multidimensional challenge to the global liberal order. That vision
involves a partnership between plain folk and virtue-cultivating
strata, to avert history's dead-end and forge a post-liberal global
polity. The book is distinctive in its cross-cultural breadth,
covering issues fromWestern and non-Western settings, both
pre-modern and modern. It also stakes out an original intellectual
and political position: critical of capitalism and technocracy,
sympathetic to traditional virtues and the legacies of past
civilizations, and avowedly cosmopolitan in scope and vision.
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