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Counter-Currents Radio Podcast No. 619
256 words / 57:46
You can buy Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism here.
Greg Johnson was joined by F. Roger Devlin in this edition of the Counter-Currents Radio Book Club. It is now available to download or listen to online.
Topics Include:
0:57 – Intro and welcoming Roger Devlin
1:40 – Donations acknowledged
3:11 – Roger’s summary of De Benoist’s book; Locke, liberalism and libertarianism; the market as a model for society. Individualism
5:00 – The “progressive” Left has transitioned to neoliberalism and the market model
6:00 – Failure of Communism; Mitterand’s failed experiment with socialism in the 80s
7:00 – The market as a model; individualism as a metaphysical claim
7:55 – Translating preferences into economic terms; what does this leave out of human life? Preferences are not just given by nature but must be evaluated: what should we want? Individual and society: Robinson Crusoe is a myth; Gilligan’s Island is a sitcom, not a guide to life
18:00 – De Benoist as a reader’s guide; Liberalism versus Communitarianism
21:00 – Hegel on civil society. State, family, market
22:10 – What is De Benoist’s alternative?
22:30 – Roepke: society with a market versus market society
23:10 – Gary Becker’s economic model. Overlapping realms
24:00 – Dialectic: Plato & Hegel’s method for articulating a complex whole like society
25:40 – A polemic, not a treatise
26:30 – De Benoist’s positive vision. The common good. Normative values not just given
28:30 – What is sovereignty?
30:00 – Democracy
30:45 – Aristotle’s “mixed regimes”
34:10 – Populism
35:30 – Representative versus participatory democracy
38: 20 – Critique or treatise?
39:00 – Subsidiarity
41:00 – Political correctness and Thatcher. Liberalism and technocracy seek to eliminate decisions and thus depoliticize society
44:00 – The rise of the bourgeois class; has it disappeared or become all-pervasive?
48:00 – Arendt on public versus “social”
49:00 – Questions
50:00 – The example of Singapore. Multiracial but not multicultural
54:00 – Wrapping up. Upcoming books and podcasts
To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.”
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By 256 words / 57:46
You can buy Alain de Benoist’s Against Liberalism here.
Greg Johnson was joined by F. Roger Devlin in this edition of the Counter-Currents Radio Book Club. It is now available to download or listen to online.
Topics Include:
0:57 – Intro and welcoming Roger Devlin
1:40 – Donations acknowledged
3:11 – Roger’s summary of De Benoist’s book; Locke, liberalism and libertarianism; the market as a model for society. Individualism
5:00 – The “progressive” Left has transitioned to neoliberalism and the market model
6:00 – Failure of Communism; Mitterand’s failed experiment with socialism in the 80s
7:00 – The market as a model; individualism as a metaphysical claim
7:55 – Translating preferences into economic terms; what does this leave out of human life? Preferences are not just given by nature but must be evaluated: what should we want? Individual and society: Robinson Crusoe is a myth; Gilligan’s Island is a sitcom, not a guide to life
18:00 – De Benoist as a reader’s guide; Liberalism versus Communitarianism
21:00 – Hegel on civil society. State, family, market
22:10 – What is De Benoist’s alternative?
22:30 – Roepke: society with a market versus market society
23:10 – Gary Becker’s economic model. Overlapping realms
24:00 – Dialectic: Plato & Hegel’s method for articulating a complex whole like society
25:40 – A polemic, not a treatise
26:30 – De Benoist’s positive vision. The common good. Normative values not just given
28:30 – What is sovereignty?
30:00 – Democracy
30:45 – Aristotle’s “mixed regimes”
34:10 – Populism
35:30 – Representative versus participatory democracy
38: 20 – Critique or treatise?
39:00 – Subsidiarity
41:00 – Political correctness and Thatcher. Liberalism and technocracy seek to eliminate decisions and thus depoliticize society
44:00 – The rise of the bourgeois class; has it disappeared or become all-pervasive?
48:00 – Arendt on public versus “social”
49:00 – Questions
50:00 – The example of Singapore. Multiracial but not multicultural
54:00 – Wrapping up. Upcoming books and podcasts
To listen in a player, click here or below. To download, right-click the link and click “save as.”