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Neoconservatism : the autobiography of an idea / Irving Kristol.
Author
Kristol, Irving
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Free Press, ©1995.
Description
xi, 493 pages ; 25 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JC573.2.U6 K75 1995
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Conservatism
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United States
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History
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20th century
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Summary note
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.
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Subtitle on jacket
Selected essays 1949-1995
ISBN
0028740211
9780028740218
LCCN
95024101
OCLC
32703421
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