Pabst Postliberal Politics

The Coming Era of Renewal
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5095-4682-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

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.

This bold book shows that only a politics which fuses economic justice with social solidarity and ecological balance can overcome our deep divisions and save us from authoritarian backlash.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pabst, Adrian

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Prologue: a new era



I POSTLIBERAL TIMES

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



Epilogue: a new battleground of ideas
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Adrian Pabst is Professor of Politics at the University of Kent, Deputy Director of the National Institute of Economic and Social Research and a leading thinker in the 'Blue Labour' movement.