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Counter-Revolution - Liberal Europe in Retreat (Hardcover)
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Counter-Revolution - Liberal Europe in Retreat (Hardcover)
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Can open society survive? Is Europe disintegrating? How to overcome
the economic crisis? Will Europeans feel secure again? Counter
Revolution is a bold attempt to make sense of the extraordinary
events taking place in Europe today. It examines the
counter-revolution developing in Europe, exploring its roots and
implications. The book takes the form of a series of heartfelt
letters to the late European guru Ralf Dahrendorf. Several months
after the fall of the Berlin Wall, Dahrendorf wrote a book
fashioned on Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in
France. Like Burke, he chose to put his analysis in the form of a
letter, reflecting on the implications of the turbulent period
around 1989. Thirty years' later, and faced with an equally
turbulent period, Jan Zielonka asks: what next? This is not a book
on populism, however: it is a book about liberalism. Populism has
become a favourite topic within liberal circles and few have
exposed populist deceptions and dangers better than liberal
writers. Yet, liberals have shown themselves better at
finger-pointing than at self-reflection. This book addresses the
imbalance; it is a self-critical book by a life-time liberal.
Counter-Revolution suggests that Europe and its liberal project
need to be reinvented and recreated. There is no simple way back.
Emmanuel Macron and Angela Merkel will not produce wonders. Europe
failed to adjust to enormous geopolitical, economic, and
technological changes that swept the continent over the past three
decades. European models of democracy, capitalism, and integration
are not in sync with new complex networks of cities, bankers,
terrorists, or migrants. Liberal values that made Europe thrive for
many decades have been betrayed. The escalation of emotions, myths,
and ordinary lies left little space for reason, deliberation, and
conciliation. This book examines these different aspects, proposing
a way out of the labyrinth.
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