Regime Change

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 o?ers 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