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A World after Liberalism: Five Thinkers Who Inspired the Radical Right Kindle Edition

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A bracing account of liberalism’s most radical critics introducing one of the most controversial movements of the twentieth century



“Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times



“One of the best books I’ve read this year. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated.”—Rod Dreher, American Conservative



In this eye-opening book, Matthew Rose introduces us to one of the most controversial intellectual movements of the twentieth century, the “radical right,” and discusses its adherents’ different attempts to imagine political societies after the death or decline of liberalism.  Rose shows how such thinkers are animated by religious aspirations and anxieties that are ultimately in tension with Christian teachings and the secular values those teachings birthed in modernity.
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“Powerful. . . . Bracing. . . . Part of the book’s eerie relevance comes from the role Russia plays throughout.”—Ezra Klein, New York Times

“Fascinating.”—G. John Ikenberry, Foreign Affairs

“Electric to read in this moment, and I strongly recommend.”—Ezra Klein, on Twitter

“One of the best books I’ve read this year. . . . Riveting. . . . Its importance at this critical moment in our history cannot be overstated.”—Rod Dreher, American Conservative

“The writing is fluid and compelling. The analysis is succinct and on point. . . . Rose helps readers understand the allure of alternative visions for the ordering of society and the goal of life.”—R. R. Reno, First Things

“As a Christian conservative, Rose has written his book as a warning against the temptation of Christian nationalism. It’s an exceptionally smart map of an important and understudied intellectual tradition. Crisply written and well researched, it is also fair.”—Jeet Heer, Commonweal

“Intelligent and serious.”—Scott McLemee, Inside Higher Education

“Richly researched and lucidly written.”—Henry George, Front Porch Republic

“‘I get bored by reading people who are allies,’ liberal Isaiah Berlin once remarked. ‘What is interesting is to read the enemy, because the enemy penetrates the defences.’ Even for those more suspicious than Matthew Rose of once peripheral twentieth-century sages of the far right, this book is useful reading, for transatlantic politics are leading more people to revive these idiosyncratic but interesting reactionaries. Rose draws his portraits well; more every day, his gallery is worth the visit.”—Samuel Moyn, Yale University

“This is one of the best discussions of the extreme right’s intellectual foundations that I have ever read. It provides a balanced, thoughtful approach to a movement that we must take very seriously.”—George Hawley, author of Making Sense of the Alt-Right

“This book changed the way I think about radical right wing politics in America and Europe. Matthew Rose’s subjects rarely appear in conventional histories of conservative thought, but his nuanced, humane analysis shows that anyone who wants to understand today’s alt-right and the populist backlash against liberalism needs to take them seriously.”—Molly Worthen, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“The five thinkers surveyed in this even-tempered book lie far outside the orbit of conventional liberal thought. But no liberal, progressive or conservative, can afford to ignore the challenge they pose. Anyone who wants to understand the origin and appeal of the alt-right needs to start here.”—Anthony Kronman, author of The Assault on American Excellence

“A fascinating read. I could not put it down. Rose tells the story of a transnational radical right, which is far more intelligent and worldly than the liberal-left claims.”—Tamir Bar-on, Tecnológico de Monterrey, School of Social Sciences and Government

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Matthew Rose is director of the Barry Center on the University and Intellectual Life at the Morningside Institute.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press (August 16, 2022)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Consequential, Thoughtful, Even Moving at Times
Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2022
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Beautifully written and consequential. Rose helps us to take far right thinkers seriously and not dismiss them as conspiracy-minded crackpots. Rose is sympathetic to the concerns of these authors and their criticisms of the individualistic, nihilistic loneliness of liberal society. The error occurs in their solutions to the problem. Still, I wish that Rose's criticisms were more specific and more emphatic. Rose is so subtle that you have to read between the lines to reflect on the problems with these ideologies.

For me, the surprise was that most of these far right authors did not focus on race or Christianity. In fact, Christianity is considered problematic because of its universalizing tendencies. Unmoored from a specific culture and place, the claim is that Christianity is too abstract and too individualized to generate significance. Rose writes that next generations of the far right could detach from Christianity creating a very different kind of conservatism from the one we know today. Rose ends with a critique of liberalism (political negative freedom) that I found both thoughtful and moving.

A World After Liberalism is much more generally relevant than I would have thought. It helps to clarify problems with contemporary liberalism filtered through Rose's Catholic perspective. As such it makes a good companion to Patrick Deneen's Why Liberalism Failed. The book also asks us to think more deeply about the many problems our society faces and how to address them. Essentially, the far right thinkers are saying that individuals aren't good at creating meaning. We need collective meaning to sweep through us and to call us to greater moral heights. A lot of us can agree with this basic premise. The problem is that a return to a believed natural order of things is fraught with at least as many problems as the normlessness of liberal freedom. Often, the cure is worse than the disease.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The aluminum man case for illiberalism
Reviewed in the United States on April 4, 2024
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As Western liberalism seems to sputter to a halt, I am thrilled to see a book on these five thinkers, whatever their pros and cons. Hence the four stars. Unfortunately, Rose treats each as if in mortal fear that he might be associated with one of them. The typical chapter treatment is “X did this and wrote that, but where he went wrong is here.” Ditto “the Christian question” which apparently all five implicitly asked and got wrong, all in the same way. Rose steers clear of stating any views himself but still is able to dismiss the views of his five subjects - presumably a skill one picks up while earning multiple degrees. The skill might be called “nuance” as in one context a subject is “racialist” while in the next he is downgraded to “racist.” Hm. Maybe it’s called begging the question. Whatever it is called, it is avoidable; writing a book about views one agrees with always is a better idea than writing about views one doesn’t agree with. Aluminum doesn’t sharpen aluminum.
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Paul Wilson
5.0 out of 5 stars Must Read for Scholars of the Radical Right
Reviewed in the United States on July 31, 2022
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This is essential reading for those studying the intellectual roots of the identitarian projects giving new life through Trump Movement. One of the key attributes of this work is that it is accessible without watering down the sophistication and complexity of the ideologies it examines. This is so incredibly rare in academia and needs to be lauded when it happens. Further, while the figures of study are incredibly important to the intellectual history of the far-right in America, they've also been sorely under-studied. This is the first (and as far as I can tell only) work that takes seriously the ideas of Yockey, Francis, etc. seriously and as underpinning much of the contemporary conservative movement. If you are a professor of American political science reading this review consider this text for your lecture hall.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Still baffled by the success of Trumpism and nativist-populism? Read this book1
Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2021
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This intellectual history of "the revolutionary right" via the lives and thought of Spengler, Evola, Yockey, Benoist and Francis is the most illuminating book on the new populist/nativist right that I've read since Hochschild's "Strangers in their Own Land." And I've read a LOT, and written several books of my own on white Christian nationalism in the U.S. The achievement of this book is to reconstruct the ideology of the non-Christian radical right. Rose traces the lineage of this "new" politics to its historical roots in the fascist and fascist-adjacent right of the inter-War period. These writers make explicit what usually remains implicit in the "worldview" of its followers and even its leaders. To his credit, Rose also shows why these ideas appeal and how liberalism has seeded this appeal.
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