{"product_id":"the-redneck-libertarian-strong-views-loose-allegiances-and-the-moral-work-of-staying-human-9798199817516","title":"The Redneck Libertarian: Strong Views, Loose Allegiances, and the Moral Work of Staying Human","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Kieth Deats\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBook Overview\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Redneck Libertarian\u003c\/b\u003e is a moral-political memoir about one man's refusal to be reduced by the categories the world keeps offering him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFormed by South Africa, apartheid, military service, business, leadership rooms, debt, ageing, and the companionship of an old dog, Dr. Kieth Deats writes from the uneasy ground between strong conviction and ideological refusal.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is not a book asking the reader to join a tribe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a book about becoming harder to capture by one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt its centre is a simple discipline: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStay close to consequence.\u003cbr\u003eRefuse capture.\u003cbr\u003eReturn to care.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"redneck\" in this book is not a caricature of ignorance or cruelty. He is the part of the author that lives close to consequence: who asks who pays, who carries the load, who cleans up when the theory fails, and whether polished language has lost contact with ordinary life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe \"libertarian\" is not fantasy individualism. He is the part that refuses capture: by state, market, tribe, party, church, corporation, ideology, fashionable moral language, or any system that turns a human being into a category.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar, the old dog on the cover, keeps the argument answerable to care. His presence reminds the reader that no politics, economics, religion, leadership theory, or moral argument is worth much if it loses contact with the living creature in front of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross thirteen chapters, the book moves from childhood and rugby fields to apartheid and tribe; from military service and business to money and leadership rooms; from gender and religion to geopolitical disorder. It asks the same questions at every scale: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWho pays?\u003cbr\u003eWho carries consequence?\u003cbr\u003eWho is being made small?\u003cbr\u003eWhere has care become control?\u003cbr\u003eWhere has freedom become abandonment?\u003cbr\u003eWhere has humiliation become permission?\u003cbr\u003eWhere is the human being disappearing?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a book with strong views, but loose allegiances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt argues that adulthood is not found in choosing one side and calling it truth. It is found in holding opposing truths without lying: freedom and care, tribe and conscience, masculinity and tenderness, faith and humility, money and morality, justice and mercy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Redneck Libertarian\u003c\/b\u003e is distinctive because it does not try to win an argument for a tribe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt tries to recover the human being from the argument.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47968394772631,"sku":"9798199817516","price":1665.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9798199817516.webp?v=1782917843","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-redneck-libertarian-strong-views-loose-allegiances-and-the-moral-work-of-staying-human-9798199817516","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}