Bowling Alone functioned as a communitarian antidote to post-1989 liberalism

Evidence

To social scientists, this refrain will sound familiar. It is the stock-in-trade of one of the classics of early twenty-first-century political science, Robert Putnam’s Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (2000). Alongside Putnam’s work on Italian civil society in the 1990s, the book helped entrench the notion that civic mores in the West were eroding, 23and that policymakers would need to make a concerted effort to counteract said trend. Bowling Alone thereby served as an unofficial manifesto for a new communitarian creed, intended to soften the pitiless liberalism that had triumphed after 1989. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 92

Categorization

• XREF: Sets the Putnam text Jäger plans to appropriate ‘from the Left’ — the reader’s explicit study interest. — connects to: Mere shared bowling league membership can create bonds deep enough for organ donation — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 72; Neoliberal discourse inverted liberalism’s visionary rhetoric into accommodation to the status quo — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1547; Communitarian private safety nets functioned as cover for welfare-state dismantling — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 99
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Mere shared bowling league membership can create bonds deep enough for organ donation — Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone The Collapse and Revival…, 72; Neoliberal discourse inverted liberalism’s visionary rhetoric into accommodation to the status quo — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1547; Communitarian private safety nets functioned as cover for welfare-state dismantling — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 99

Broader Connections

• Communitarian private safety nets functioned as cover for welfare-state dismantling #complicates (0.78) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 99