The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life
One of the grim comedies of the twentieth century was the fate of miserable victims of communist regimes who climbed walls, swam rivers, dodged bullets, and found other desperate ways to achieve liberty in the West at the same time as intellectuals in the West sentimentally proclaimed that these very regimes were the wave of the future. A similar tragicomedy is being played out in our century: as the victims of despotism and backwardness from third world nations pour into Western states, the same ivory tower intellectuals assert that Western life is a nightmare of inequality and oppression.In The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral L…
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- ISBN: 978-1-59403-381-0
- EAN: 9781594033810
- Produktnummer: 22086206
- Verlag: Encounter Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
- Seitenangabe: 374 S.
- Masse: H23.9 cm x B16.4 cm x D3.5 cm 720 g
- Gewicht: 720
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Kenneth Minogue is Emeritus Professor of political science at the London School of Economics. He has written books on liberalism, nationalism, the idea of a university, the logic of ideology, and, more recently, on democracy and the moral life. He has reviewed in many places, and has been a columnist for the Times, the Times Higher Education Supplement, and other outlets.
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