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

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...

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Place / Publishing House:Bristol : : Bristol University Press,, 2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (vii, 198 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s).
Notes:Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 12 Oct 2022).
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505 0 |a 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. 
505 8 |a Plot II: sacrifice for the movement -- Plot III: small wins against the odds -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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 -- Conclusion -- 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. 
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