Here are the best of Kristol's now famous essays on society, religion, morals, culture, literature, education, and on the values issues which have come to define the neoconservative critique of contemporary life. These essays display the provocative ideas and style that have caused Irving Kristol to be justly regarded as the "godfather" of the conservative movement.
Irving Kristol Livres
Figure influente dans le paysage intellectuel et politique du dernier demi-siècle, cet auteur a été une voix centrale dans la formation du discours public. En tant que fondateur et rédacteur de publications importantes, il a joué un rôle central dans la culture intellectuelle et politique. Ses écrits ont abordé de profondes questions philosophiques et sociétales, se concentrant sur les valeurs et l'orientation de la société moderne. Par ses efforts éditoriaux et journalistiques, il a laissé une marque indélébile dans la formation de la pensée politique.
Passage to a Human World
- 390pages
- 14 heures de lecture
"Singer convincingly demonstrates that econ-omic growth is the central reality of the modern era... His arguments are sometimes subtle, but he walks the reader through them with schematized subheadings, summaries, and relentless patience." --Peter Brimelow, The Wall Street Journal Responding to the Club of Rome's Limit to Growth and its successors, Singer argues that the dominant characteristic of the modern era is almost completely the world's passage, in the few centuries surrounding our own, from poverty to wealth. This rapid transformation in the condition of human life--from poor to wealthy, from nature-dominated to human--dominated is described here, as are the reasons why it has been largely ignored.