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Possibility's Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism
Contributor(s): Hrezo, Margaret Seyford (Author), Pappas, Nicholas (Author)

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 ISBN: 149859882X     ISBN-13: 9781498598828
Publisher: Lexington Books
OUR PRICE: $110.25  

Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2019
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BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Econometrics
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 809.933
LCCN: 2019950757
Series: Politics, Literature, & Film
Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6" W x 9" L (0.93 lbs) 170 pages
 
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This book links the questions people ask about why things exist, why the world is the way it is, and whether and how it is possible to change their society or world with the societal myths they develop and teach to answer those questions and organize and bring order to their communal lives. It also is about the need for change in western societies' current organizing concept, classical (Lockean) liberalism. Despite the attempts of numerous insightful political thinkers, the myth of classical liberalism has developed so many cracks that it cannot be put back together again. If not entirely failed, it is at this point unsalvageable in its present form. Never the thought of just one person, the liberal model of individual religious, political, and economic freedom developed over hundreds of years starting with Martin Luther's dictum that every man should be his own priest. Although, classical liberalism means different things to different people, at its most basic level, this model sees human beings as individuals who exist prior to government and have rights over government and the social good. That is, the individual right always trumps the moral and social good and individuals have few obligations to one another unless they actively choose to undertake them. Possibility's Parents argues that Lockean liberalism has reached the end of its logic in ways that make it unable to handle the western world's most pressing problems and that novelists whose writing includes the form and texture of myth have important insights to offer on the way forward.

Contributor Bio(s): Hrezo, Margaret Seyford: - email: mhrezo@radford.edu
 
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