Patrick J Deneen
Biographic Data
| ID | 241871 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patrick J Deneen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patrick J |
| FAMILY NAME | Deneen |
| SIGNATURE | DENEEN P J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Georgetown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Refuge from Liberalism
Bryan Garsten claims that most treatments of liberalism today take the form either of "autopsy" or "demonology," and that defenses of liberalism are either "plaintive or desperate." While the former might be true, the latter description misses the mark. In the American case, "Refuge" as the basis of a political order is merely the progressive telling not just of what become hidden forms of "exodus," but a particular kind of exodus that has been b…
Regime Change
Why Liberalism Failed
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As this book argues, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering …
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity
After the Interregnum
An Unbalanced Crucible
Cities of Man on a Hill
While a long-standing belief in American Exceptionalism can hardly be disputed, further probing of the idea—both conceptually and historically—suggests that “American exceptionalism” can be distinguished as at least three different types. Further, even some main forms of criticism of American exceptionalism can be seen to derive from a similar set of commitments to the transformational power of politics. The more fundamental similarity between bo…
Collaborative Governance and Civic Empowerment
Whether as a solution to problems of political legitimacy or social mistrust, as a way of involving civil society, or as a method of crafting more effective “third way” policies, collaborative governance has been a topic of renewed interest for political scientists and policy intellectuals. Carmen Sirianni's Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance (Brookings, 2009) is an important new book that raises many of these i…
Democratic Faith
The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent supporters there is an oft-expressed belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to recon…
Strange Bedfellows
Research Article| January 01 2008 Strange Bedfellows: Allan Bloom and John Dewey Against Liberal Education, Rightly Understood Patrick J. Deneen Patrick J. Deneen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2008) 17 (2): 49–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711299 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Patrick J. Deneen; Strange Bedfellows: Allan Bloom and John Dewey Against Liberal E…
A Different Kind of Democratic Competence
Social‐scientific data, such as those found in Philip E. Converse's 1964 essay, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics,” have led some to question whether basic assumptions about democratic legitimacy are unfounded. However, by another set of criteria, we have the “democracy” that was intended by the Framers—namely, a liberal representative system that avoids strong civic engagement by the citizenry. At its deepest level, the American syst…
A House Divided
Peter Lawler is our most original and persuasive proponent of an understanding of a "providential" or unwritten constitution that incorporates Christian and even Catholic natural law components. Nevertheless, Lawler admits elsewhere in his work that the Constitution's more Lockean individualistic logic is a reality and concern, thus putting in doubt the staying power of a premodern inheritance that he elsewhere confidently assumes to persist. Law…
Transcendentalism, Ancient and Modern
After his conversion to Catholicism in 1844, Orestes Brownson became a strenuous critic of transcendentalism, particularly for its tendencies toward individualism and pantheism and its valorization of a form of "democratic faith." By contrast, Brownson commended a form of "democratic realism" derived from Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions that particularly recognized the need for mediation for human creatures that could not be fully at home i…
Reply to My Admirable Critics
This essay is a response to several considerations of the author's book Democratic Faith. It responds specifically to questions about Plato's Republic, the democratic theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and questions about Alexis de Tocqueville
The Liberal Conscience
The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism. By Lucas Swaine. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 240p. $35.00.In this book, Lucas Swaine argues that modern liberalism has failed in its efforts to provide adequate justification of liberalism's political legitimacy to religious adherents. This may seem a surprising contention, given the vast literature that attempts to do precisely this, reaching easily …
Introduction
"Introduction: On Wilson Carey McWilliams (1933-2005)." Perspectives on Political Science, 35(4), p. 189
A Better Sort of Love
The Odyssey of Political Theory
This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to…
The Odyssey of Political Theory
Invisible Foundations
Awakening from the American Dream
Escaping the Cave
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPatrick J. DeneenGUEST EDITOR Patrick J. Deneen is an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. He is the author of The Odyssey of Political Theory as well as essays on ancient and American political thought
Desecration
Chasing Plato
Antigone and the Limits of Tragedy
The Liberal Conscience
The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism. By Lucas Swaine. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 240p. $35.00.In this book, Lucas Swaine argues that modern liberalism has failed in its efforts to provide adequate justification of liberalism's political legitimacy to religious adherents. This may seem a surprising contention, given the vast literature that attempts to do precisely this, reaching easily …
Invisible Foundations
Cities of Man on a Hill
While a long-standing belief in American Exceptionalism can hardly be disputed, further probing of the idea—both conceptually and historically—suggests that “American exceptionalism” can be distinguished as at least three different types. Further, even some main forms of criticism of American exceptionalism can be seen to derive from a similar set of commitments to the transformational power of politics. The more fundamental similarity between bo…
A Different Kind of Democratic Competence
Social‐scientific data, such as those found in Philip E. Converse's 1964 essay, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics,” have led some to question whether basic assumptions about democratic legitimacy are unfounded. However, by another set of criteria, we have the “democracy” that was intended by the Framers—namely, a liberal representative system that avoids strong civic engagement by the citizenry. At its deepest level, the American syst…
Chasing Plato
Antigone and the Limits of Tragedy
Chasing Plato
Awakening from the American Dream
Escaping the Cave
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPatrick J. DeneenGUEST EDITOR Patrick J. Deneen is an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University. He is the author of The Odyssey of Political Theory as well as essays on ancient and American political thought
Desecration
The Odyssey of Political Theory
This path-breaking and eloquent analysis of The Odyssey, and the way it has been interpreted by political philosophers throughout the centuries, has dramatic implications for the current state of political thought. This important book offers readers original insights into The Odyssey and it provides a new understanding of the classic works of Plato, Rousseau, Vico, Horkheimer, and Adorno. Through his analysis Patrick J. Deneen requires readers to…
The Odyssey of Political Theory
Invisible Foundations
Introduction
"Introduction: On Wilson Carey McWilliams (1933-2005)." Perspectives on Political Science, 35(4), p. 189
A Better Sort of Love
Reply to My Admirable Critics
This essay is a response to several considerations of the author's book Democratic Faith. It responds specifically to questions about Plato's Republic, the democratic theory of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and questions about Alexis de Tocqueville
The Liberal Conscience
The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of Religious Pluralism. By Lucas Swaine. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 240p. $35.00.In this book, Lucas Swaine argues that modern liberalism has failed in its efforts to provide adequate justification of liberalism's political legitimacy to religious adherents. This may seem a surprising contention, given the vast literature that attempts to do precisely this, reaching easily …
Strange Bedfellows
Research Article| January 01 2008 Strange Bedfellows: Allan Bloom and John Dewey Against Liberal Education, Rightly Understood Patrick J. Deneen Patrick J. Deneen Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Good Society (2008) 17 (2): 49–55. https://doi.org/10.2307/20711299 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Patrick J. Deneen; Strange Bedfellows: Allan Bloom and John Dewey Against Liberal E…
A Different Kind of Democratic Competence
Social‐scientific data, such as those found in Philip E. Converse's 1964 essay, “The Nature of Belief Systems in Mass Publics,” have led some to question whether basic assumptions about democratic legitimacy are unfounded. However, by another set of criteria, we have the “democracy” that was intended by the Framers—namely, a liberal representative system that avoids strong civic engagement by the citizenry. At its deepest level, the American syst…
A House Divided
Peter Lawler is our most original and persuasive proponent of an understanding of a "providential" or unwritten constitution that incorporates Christian and even Catholic natural law components. Nevertheless, Lawler admits elsewhere in his work that the Constitution's more Lockean individualistic logic is a reality and concern, thus putting in doubt the staying power of a premodern inheritance that he elsewhere confidently assumes to persist. Law…
Transcendentalism, Ancient and Modern
After his conversion to Catholicism in 1844, Orestes Brownson became a strenuous critic of transcendentalism, particularly for its tendencies toward individualism and pantheism and its valorization of a form of "democratic faith." By contrast, Brownson commended a form of "democratic realism" derived from Aristotelian and Thomistic traditions that particularly recognized the need for mediation for human creatures that could not be fully at home i…
Democratic Faith
The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent supporters there is an oft-expressed belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to recon…
Collaborative Governance and Civic Empowerment
Whether as a solution to problems of political legitimacy or social mistrust, as a way of involving civil society, or as a method of crafting more effective “third way” policies, collaborative governance has been a topic of renewed interest for political scientists and policy intellectuals. Carmen Sirianni's Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance (Brookings, 2009) is an important new book that raises many of these i…
An Unbalanced Crucible
Cities of Man on a Hill
While a long-standing belief in American Exceptionalism can hardly be disputed, further probing of the idea—both conceptually and historically—suggests that “American exceptionalism” can be distinguished as at least three different types. Further, even some main forms of criticism of American exceptionalism can be seen to derive from a similar set of commitments to the transformational power of politics. The more fundamental similarity between bo…
After the Interregnum
Science, Virtue, and the Future of Humanity
Why Liberalism Failed
Has liberalism failed because it has succeeded? Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism's proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As this book argues, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering …
Regime Change
A Refuge from Liberalism
Bryan Garsten claims that most treatments of liberalism today take the form either of "autopsy" or "demonology," and that defenses of liberalism are either "plaintive or desperate." While the former might be true, the latter description misses the mark. In the American case, "Refuge" as the basis of a political order is merely the progressive telling not just of what become hidden forms of "exodus," but a particular kind of exodus that has been b…
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