Patrick J. Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen

Patrick J. Deneen was born on July 21st, 1964 and is currently 61 years old. Patrick J. Deneen was born in United States.

Patrick J. Deneen is an author and political theorist known for his critical examination of liberalism and its effects on contemporary society. He is a professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, where his work emphasizes the interrelations of culture, political philosophy, and religion.

He was born on July 21, 1964, and is the son of an insurance executive. He was raised Catholic in Windsor, Connecticut, and is of Irish ancestry. He was educated at Rutgers University, receiving a BA in English literature in 1986.

Patrick was a speechwriter and special advisor to Joseph Duffey (director of the United States Information Agency) from 1995 to 1997.

From 1997 to 2005, he was an assistant professor at Princeton University. In 2005, he joined the faculty at Georgetown University, where he was the Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government until 2012.

Patrick was also the founding director of the Tocqueville Forum on the Roots of American Democracy at Georgetown from 2006 until 2012.

He studies liberalism, democracy, modern and classical political thought, and American political thought. Patrick is considered one of the prominent conservative intellectuals, especially for his argument that liberalism, both in its Enlightenment and modern expressions, has failed America.

Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future is a provocative call for replacing the tyranny of self-serving liberal elite with conservative leaders aligned with the working class’s interests.

Classical liberalism promised to overthrow the old aristocracy, creating an order in which individuals could create their own futures and identities. To some extent, it did just that; however, it also demolished the institutions and traditions that nourished ordinary people and created this exploitative and new ruling class.

In this book, Patrick proposes a bold plan for replacing the liberal elite and all the ideology that empowered and created them. Grass-roots populist efforts to destroy the ruling class altogether are naive; what is needed is the strategic formation of a new elite devoted to this pre-postmodern conservatism, and aligned with the interests of the many. Their top-down efforts to form a new governing philosophy, class, and ethos could transform our broken regime from one that serves just the so-called meritocrats.

Pulling on the oldest lessons of the Western tradition yet recognizing the changed conditions that arise in liberal modernity, Patrick offers a roadmap for such changes, offering hope for progress after progress and liberty after liberalism.

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