Postliberal politics
the coming era of renewal
- ISBN: 9781509546817
- Editorial: Polity Press
- Fecha de la edición: 2021
- Lugar de la edición: Cambridge. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 224
- Idiomas: Inglés
Hyper-capitalism and extreme identity politics are driving us to distraction. Both destroy the basis of a common life shared across ages and classes. The COVID-19 crisis could accelerate these tendencies further, or it could herald something more hopeful: a post-liberal moment.
Adrian Pabst argues that now is the time for an alternative – postliberalism – that is centred around trust, dignity, and human relationships. Instead of reverting to the destabilising inhumanity of 'just-in-time' free-market globalisation, we could build a politics upon the sense of localism and community spirit, the valuing of family, place and belonging, which was a real theme of lockdown. We are not obliged to put up with the restoration of a broken status quo that erodes trust, undermines institutions and trashes our precious natural environment. We could build a pluralist democracy, decentralise the state, and promote embedded, mutualist markets.
1. Resolving the interregnum
2. Politics after the plague
3. Why opposites coincide
4. New polarities
II. A PUBLIC PHILOSOPHY of POSTLIBERALISM
5. The art of politics
6. Social virtues
7. Mutual obligations
8. Pluralism
9. Place, limits and ecology
III. POLITICAL and POLICY PROGRAMME
10. Building a relational economy
11. Renewing democratic corporatism
12. Reweaving the social fabric
13. Restoring the common home of nature
14. Promoting civic internationalism.