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Myths, rituals and magic as both embedded in, and tools for making, traditions. |
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Front Cover -- Saving Liberalism from Itself: The Spirit of Political Participation -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Alternatives on the Horizon -- 2 What's Liberalism Got to Do with It? -- We need to talk about liberalism -- Four ideas -- Individualism -- The severing -- The social contract -- Public rationality -- Three mechanisms -- State -- Market -- Civil society -- Four consequences -- Meaning fatigue -- The social as contract -- Political fragmentation -- The turn to the right -- Conclusion -- 3 How to Address Liberalism's Faults |
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The post-liberalism narrative: where Jordan Peterson meets Narendra Modi -- The parochialism of liberalism narrative: the strange collusion between post-liberals and anthropologists -- 'The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, /But in ourselves': Enlightenment all over again -- Putting lipstick on a pig: the civil religion tradition -- An interlude: does liberalism have a religion? -- 'There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio/Than are dreamt of in your philosophy': making meaning from where liberals are -- 4 A Variety of Liberalism in Vancouver -- Imposing a liberal order |
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Meanwhile in British Columbia -- Elective cities: liberalism in Vancouver -- Resisting liberalism from within: the Industrial Areas Foundation -- Saving liberalism in Vancouver -- A pre-contractual 'we' of place -- Relationships before issues -- Reconstituting the self -- 5 Myths that Might Save Liberalism: Emotional Supplements to Moral Logics -- Why people turn to myths -- The fault, Dear Brutus, is in our stars: the ethical imaginary as a constellation of myths -- How myths are used: portable, self-administered technologies |
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Myths that stick: the structure and content of myths that might save liberalism -- The backdrop: tales of two cities -- Plot I: empowerment in the movement -- Plot II: sacrifice for the movement -- Plot III: small wins against the odds -- Conclusion -- 6 Rituals for Radicals -- Subtle gestures: personal stories in political spaces -- The political is personal: becoming characters in the drama of life -- Really listening: "No story lives unless someone wants to listen" -- Telling oneself into the movement: the power of an unfinished ritual -- Solidarity games -- Public dramas -- Conclusion |
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7 Magical Feelings as the Source and Aim of Myths and Rituals -- Taking magic in-house -- Searching for magic in unexpected places -- Power to the people, magic in the movement -- It has to be non-instrumental -- It has to be more than a party -- It has to be radically democratic -- It has to be productive -- It has to transform those involved -- Conclusion -- 8 Traditions at the End of History -- Tradition as a liberating force -- Inheriting which past: cultural interweaving -- Leaving a mark together: collective legacy making -- Tradition as both object and process |
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1529215501 (electronic book) |
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9781529215502 (electronic bk.) |
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