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In Defense of Decadent Europe (Hardcover)
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In Defense of Decadent Europe (Hardcover)
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Raymond Aron's In Defense of Decadent Europe was first conceived at
a time of great uncertainty for the Western democracies. The
postwar economic boom had been interrupted by "stagflation," while
communist and socialist parties in Italy and France were powerful
factors in Europe's political landscape. Aron's book has a
threefold purpose: the analysis of the Soviet Russian regime and
its Marxist-Leninist theoretical foundation; the detailed empirical
comparison between liberal democracies and collectivist regimes of
the East; and, above all, the exploration of what might be termed
the "problem" of democracy the tendency of democratic regimes to
undermine themselves unless checked in their most extreme
tendencies. Aron denounces the clash between democracy and the
Marxist-Leninist mystification and explains how Marxism leads to
Soviet-style ideology. The second part of the book constitutes a
defense of liberal Europe. The author makes comparisons in terms of
productivity, technical innovation, living standards, scientific
progress, and human freedom. But Aron also notes there are
important ways in which the West must put her house in order by
cultivating authority in the church, in universities, in business,
and even in the army. This paradox is conveyed by the title of the
book, the juxtaposition of the words In Defense of and Decadent
Europe. In the new introduction, Daniel Mahoney and Brian Anderson
discuss the disenchanted conservative liberalism of Raymond Aron
that set him apart. Among the topics they cover are: the challenge
of ideocracy, the decadence of democracy, and Aron as a civic
philosopher. In Defense of Decadent Europe combines ideological
debate with economic and social analysis. Its thorough examination
of Western freedom versus the Eastern communism of the recent past
extends well beyond parochial debates into a basic vision of
Western societies. The book will be compelling for historians,
political scientists, economists, and philosophers.
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