Summary
Irving Kristol: Neoconservatism
The Autobiography of an Idea
The movement we call neoconservatism arose among American liberals, as much from resentment of the original, rigid conservatism of the old coin as from disillusionment with the left and ideological hostility towards the Soviet Union.
Irving Kristol, an influential intellectual and distinguished publisher and columnist, in his youth a radical socialist, during the fifties he profiled himself as one of the main progenitors of the neoconservative system of thought. With his essays and articles on politics, economics, society, religion, culture, literature, education and above all on "values", he literally defined the neoconservatism critique of modern life and contributed to the development of neoconservatism among an entire generation of American intellectuals. Equally, this worldview played a decisive role in shaping the idea of a "third way" among European social democracy.
Translated by Božica Jakovlev and with an afterword by prof. Dr. Zvonko Lerotić, the "Facta" library presents you with the most complete collection of Kristol's writings, without knowledge of which no political option can imagine a coherent conversation about political topics from recent history. Irving Kristol is an uncompromising, challenging, lucid and relevant interlocutor - to everyone, and above all to his ideological dissenters.
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