Politics of Virtue Milbank John
Politics of Virtue Milbank John Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions negative liberty and individual happiness. The triumph of liberalism has had the effect of…
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Politics of Virtue Milbank John
Contemporary politics is dominated by a liberal creed that champions negative liberty and individual happiness. The triumph of liberalism has had the effect of subordinating human association and the common good to narrow self-interest and short-term utility. This creed undergirds positions on both the right and the left free-market capitalism, state bureaucracy and individualism in social life.
In this important book, John Milbank and Adrian Pabst apply this analysis to the economy, politics, culture, and international affairs. By contrast, post-liberalism promotes individual fulfilment and mutual flourishing based on shared goals that have more substantive content than the formal abstractions of liberal law and contract, and yet are also adaptable to different cultural and local traditions. In each case, having diagnosed the crisis of liberalism, they propose post-liberal