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 Knihy
Tento autor bol vplyvnou postavou v intelektuálnom a politickom živote posledného polstoročia. Založil a redigoval niekoľko kľúčových publikácií, ktoré formovali verejnú debatu a intelektuálne trendy. Jeho práca sa zaoberala hlbokými filozofickými a spoločenskými otázkami, pričom sa zameriaval na hodnoty a smerovanie modernej spoločnosti. Jeho redakčná a publicistická činnosť zanechala nezmazateľnú stopu na formovaní politickej kultúry.
Passage to a Human World
- 390 stránok
- 14 hodin čítania
"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.