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ENLIGHTENMENT PHILOSOPHERS PROMISED THAT SWEEPING AWAY THE OLD ARISTOCRACY AND TRADITIONAL INSTITUTIONS WOULD LIBERATE US.

To some extent it did – but it also undermined the things that nourished ordinary people: family, marriage, religion and local community. In Regime Change, Patrick Deneen examines the western tradition and argues that we must use the neglected resources of our philosophical heritage to construct a better way forward. Drawing on thinkers ranging from Aristotle and Machiavelli to Burke and Disraeli, Deneen develops a postliberal alternative.

This iconoclastic book challenges the easy assumptions of left and right. It is a blueprint for the radical changes we need to negotiate the paradoxes of the 21st century, while remaining alive to the wisdom of the past.

‘Regime Change offers a sober assessment of where we are and a way forward that will challenge ideologues on all sides of the political maelstrom’ – MARY HARRINGTON, author of Feminism Against Progress

‘Articulates a vision for a populist politics that can rebuild what has been torn down’ – J. D. VANCE, United States Senator and author of Hillbilly Elegy

Publisher Review

'Deneen does more than show how our present ruling class has declared war on beauty, tradition, and the social institutions that make life worth living; he articulates a vision for a populist politics that can rebuild what has been torn down' - JD Vance, United States Senator 'Regime Change offers a sober assessment of where we are, and a way forward that will challenge ideologues on all sides of the political maelstrom' - Mary Harrington 'In Regime Change, Patrick Deneen expertly points us beyond the opposition between a feckless populism and a rapacious elite, toward a vision of shared purpose, mutual obligation, and truly common goods. Along the way, he reaffirms his status as the West's most important political theorist' - Sohrab Ahmari, founder and editor of Compact and author of Tyranny, Inc. 'A brilliant and clarifying success, identifying a set of mechanisms by which a post-liberal order might come into being. Here, as in Why Liberalism Failed, Deneen's views will become the fixed center around which the debate revolves' - Adrian Vermeule, Ralph S. Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law, Harvard Law School 'This creative and courageous book takes us to the core of the American impasse. Deneen's Common Good conservatism is a gallant effort to preserve crucial aspects of our desiccated democratic tradition' - Cornel West, Union Theological Seminary