Neoconservatism : the autobiography of an idea / Irving Kristol.

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Kristol, Irving [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
New York : Free Press, ©1995.
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xi, 493 pages ; 25 cm

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    • Neoconservatism is the movement that has provided the intellectual foundation for the resurgence of American conservatism in our time. And if neoconservatism can be said to have a father or an architect, that person is Irving Kristol. Neoconservatism is the most comprehensive selection of Kristol's influential writings on politics and economics, as well as the best of his now-famous essays on society, religion, culture, literature, education, and - above all - the "values" issues that have come to define the neo-conservative critique of contemporary life.
    • These essays provide an unparalleled insight into the 50-year development of Kristol's social and political ideas, from an uneasy socialism tempered with religious orthodoxy, to a vigilant optimism about the future of the American experiment. Those already familiar with Kristol's work will especially enjoy the new autobiographical essay that introduces this volume; it is sprinkled with personal recollections about such luminaries as Lionel Trilling, Leo Strauss, Saul Bellow, Sidney Hook, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and historian Gertrude Himmelfarb (who is also Mrs. Kristol). Those relatively new to Kristol's writings will be treated to some of the most lucid, insightful, entertaining, and intellectually challenging essays of our time.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • An autobiographical memoir
    • Race, sex, and family. Welfare : the best of intentions, the worst of results
    • The tragedy of "multiculturalism"
    • Reflections on love and family
    • Men, women, and sex
    • AIDS and false innocence
    • Life without father
    • From adversary culture to counterculture. American intellectuals and foreign policy
    • Capitalism, socialism, and nihilism
    • The adversary culture of intellectuals
    • The cultural revolution and the capitalist future
    • Countercultures
    • On capitalism and the democratic idea. Machiavelli and the profanation of politics
    • About equality
    • The frustrations of affluence
    • Utopianism, ancient and modern
    • Social reform : gains and losses
    • Business and the "new class"
    • Corporate capitalism in America
    • On conservatism and capitalism
    • The American Revolution as a successful revolution
    • What is "social justice?"
    • Adam Smith and the spirit of capitalism
    • Socialism : an obituary for an idea.
    • The conservative prospect. American historians and the democratic idea
    • Urban civilization and its discontents
    • The Republican future
    • "The stupid party"
    • The emergence of two Republican parties
    • The new populism : not to worry
    • The coming "conservative century"
    • The new face of American politics
    • America's "exceptional conservatism"
    • On Jews. God and the psychoanalysts
    • Einstein : the passion of pure reason
    • Is Jewish humor dead?
    • Christianity, Judaism, and socialism
    • The future of American Jewry
    • Some backward glances. Memoirs of a "cold warrior"
    • Memoirs of a Trotskyist
    • My cold war.
    Subtitle on jacket
    • Selected essays 1949-1995
    ISBN
    • 0028740211
    • 9780028740218
    LCCN
    95024101
    OCLC
    32703421
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