Год выпуска: 2007 Автор: Brian C. Anderson Издательство: Страниц: 0 ISBN: 1933859245
Описание
Despite the fall of its ideological enemiesa€”the political messianisms of communism and national socialisma€”democratic capitalism faces extraordinary challenges in the new millennium, argues City Journal editor and South Park Conservatives author Brian C. Anderson in this thought-provoking new book. Not only has a fanatical form of Islam distrupted the peace and prosperity of the postcommunist era, which some had wrongly heralded as a liberal-democratic a€?end of historya€?; our free societies also remain haunted by internal demonsa€”egalitarian fantasies, moral libertinism, an arid and unsustainable secularism, a suicide of culture. Yet nothing ordains the triumph of these demons over the democratic capitalist prospect, Anderson believes. Drawing on a rich anti-utopian tradition of political thought, he defends the real achievements of the free society against an array of critics, ranging from Jean-Paul Sartre to British anti-market conservative John...