Author:
Minogue, Kenneth R., 1930-2013, author.
Edition Statement:First American edition.
ImprintNew York, New York : Encounter Books, 2017.
Imprint2017.
Descriptionxv, 334 pages ; 24 cm.
Note:A fable of time and class -- How to make trends and influence people -- The modern liberal's casebook -- Can one teach 'political literacy'? -- Choice, consciousness and ideological language -- The roots of modern dogmatism -- The conditions of freedom and the condition of freedom -- The goddess that failed -- Can scholarship survive the scholars? -- Totalitarianism: have we seen the last of it? -- Some doubts about democracy: how the modern state is evolving -- Two concepts of the moral life -- Seduction & politics -- Conservatism & the morality of impulse -- Marriage in our time -- Morals & the servile mind -- The irresponsibility of rights -- The intellectual left's treason of the heart -- Individualism and its contemporary fate -- The self-interested society.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-320) and index.
Note:This collection of twenty of Kenneth Minogue's essays, written over a period of more than fifty years, celebrates the advent of modern liberty. They describe the conditions under which liberty and individuality can flourish and the threats to liberty's flourishing in our time. Minogue offers a powerful critique of political correctness, of ideological flights from reality, and of the deformities of study in the modern university.
