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Can I read Possibility’s Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism (Politics, Literature, & Film) on EtoBox?

Possibility’s Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism (Politics, Literature, & Film) by Margaret Seyford Hrezo, Nicholas Pappas is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Possibility’s Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism (Politics, Literature, & Film) about?

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

Who reads Possibility’s Parents: Stories at the End of Liberalism (Politics, Literature, & Film)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Margaret Seyford Hrezo, Nicholas Pappas
Publisher
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Published
2019
Language
EN
ISBN
9781498598828
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Business, Literary Fiction, History

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