Saving liberalism from Iitself : the spirit of political participation / Timothy Stacey.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stacey, Timothy, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism--Social aspects.

Liberalism.

Political participation.

Populism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 198 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2022.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In the wake of populism, Timothy Stacey's book critically reflects on what is missing from the liberal project with the aim of saving liberalism. It explains that populists have harnessed myth, ritual, magic and tradition to advance their ambitions, and why opponents need to embrace rather than eschew them.

Contents:

Front Cover

Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation

Copyright information

Table of contents

Acknowledgments

1 Alternatives on the Horizon

2 What's Liberalism Got to Do with It?

We need to talk about liberalism

Four ideas

Individualism

The severing

The social contract

Public rationality

Three mechanisms

State

Market

Civil society

Four consequences

Meaning fatigue

The social as contract

Political fragmentation

The turn to the right

Conclusion

3 How to Address Liberalism's Faults

The post-liberalism narrative: where Jordan Peterson meets Narendra Modi

The parochialism of liberalism narrative: the strange collusion between post-liberals and anthropologists

'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,/But in ourselves': Enlightenment all over again

Putting lipstick on a pig: the civil religion tradition

An interlude: does liberalism have a religion?

'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy': making meaning from where liberals are

4 A Variety of Liberalism in Vancouver

Imposing a liberal order

Meanwhile in British Columbia

Elective cities: liberalism in Vancouver

Resisting liberalism from within: the Industrial Areas Foundation

Saving liberalism in Vancouver

A pre-contractual 'we' of place

Relationships before issues

Reconstituting the self

5 Myths that Might Save Liberalism: Emotional Supplements to Moral Logics

Why people turn to myths

The fault, Dear Brutus, is in our stars: the ethical imaginary as a constellation of myths

How myths are used: portable, self-administered technologies

Myths that stick: the structure and content of myths that might save liberalism

The backdrop: tales of two cities

Plot I: empowerment in the movement.

Plot II: sacrifice for the movement

Plot III: small wins against the odds

6 Rituals for Radicals

Subtle gestures: personal stories in political spaces

The political is personal: becoming characters in the drama of life

Really listening: "No story lives unless someone wants to listen"

Telling oneself into the movement: the power of an unfinished ritual

Solidarity games

Public dramas

7 Magical Feelings as the Source and Aim of Myths and Rituals

Taking magic in-house

Searching for magic in unexpected places

Power to the people, magic in the movement

It has to be non-instrumental

It has to be more than a party

It has to be radically democratic

It has to be productive

It has to transform those involved

8 Traditions at the End of History

Tradition as a liberating force

Inheriting which past: cultural interweaving

Leaving a mark together: collective legacy making

Tradition as both object and process

Myths, rituals and magic as both embedded in, and tools for making, traditions

Tradition making as a public duty

9 The Truth Won't Save Us

Saving liberalism from itself wherever you're at

Myth

Rituals

Magic

Tradition

A pre-contractual 'we' of place and compassionate truth

Notes

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Oct 2022).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This eBook is made available Open Access under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mai 2023)

Other Format:

Print version: Stacey, Timothy Saving Liberalism from Itself

ISBN:

1-5292-1551-X

1-5292-1550-1

OCLC:

1323253870