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Network Democracy: Conservative Politics and the Violence of the Liberal Age

Network Democracy: Conservative Politics and the Violence of the Liberal Age

Giesbrecht, Jared

Paperback

Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas, Book 68

PhilosophyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0773550747
ISBN13: 9780773550742
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Jan 1 2018
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Network Democracy uses the contemporary tools of ecology and network thinking to unearth the ancient, intellectual ruins of traditional conservative thought.

Questioning the West's veneration of freedom, equality, contractual citizenship, economic progress, cosmopolitanism, secular institutionalism, and reason, Jared Giesbrecht illuminates how these ideals fuel violence and insecurity in our high-speed lives. While the modern age witnesses the rise of a violent conservatism in the form of revolutionary movements enacting terror and vengeance for the interventions of the liberal West, this study reveals a different kind of conservatism - one that has emerged in direct conversation with liberal thought. Giesbrecht highlights the need for intermediate institutions and civil enterprises that form relations and traditions independent of the state in order to develop resistance to the insecurity of the liberal age. This book offers not only a poignant critique, but a constructive and peaceable alternative to the violence of both liberalism and reactionary anti-liberalism.

Attuned to the new realities of globalization, advanced technology, and social acceleration, Network Democracy is a masterful hybrid of ancient and cutting-edge political philosophy that casts a new light on the values underlying western civilization.

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