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Realm of Lesser Evil - An essay on liberal civilization (Hardcover, English)
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Realm of Lesser Evil - An essay on liberal civilization (Hardcover, English)
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Winston Churchill said of democracy that it was 'the worst form of
government, except for all those other forms that have been tried
from time to time.' The same could be said of liberalism. While
liberalism displays an unfailing optimism with regard to the
capacity of human beings to make themselves 'masters and possessors
of nature', it displays a profound pessimism when it comes to
appreciating their moral capacity to build a decent world for
themselves. As Michea shows, the roots of this pessimism lie in the
idea - an eminently modern one - that the desire to establish the
reign of the Good lies at the origin of all the ills besetting the
human race. Liberalism's critique of the 'tyranny of the Good'
naturally had its costs. It created a view of modern politics as a
purely negative art - that of defining the least bad society
possible. It is in this sense that liberalism has to be understood,
and understands itself, as the 'politics of lesser evil'. And yet
while liberalism set out to be a realism without illusions, today
liberalism presents itself as something else. With its celebration
of the market among other things, contemporary liberalism has taken
over some of the features of its oldest enemy. By unravelling the
logic that lies at the heart of the liberal project, Michea is able
to shed fresh light on one of the key ideas that have shaped the
civilization of the West.
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