On Liberty and Its Enemies: Essays of Kenneth Minogue (Encounter Classics)

This collection of twenty of Kenneth Minogue's essays, written over a period of more than fifty years, celebrates the advent of modern liberty. They describe the conditions under which liberty and individuality can flourish and the threats to liberty's flourishing in our time. Minogue offers a powerful critique of political correctness, of ideological flights from reality, and of the deformities of study in the modern university. “Ken Minogue never saw liberty as a statue, as an idol to be worshipped, but as a way of life―‘not merely a situation to be enjoyed, but a capacity to be exercised.’ Minogue also knew better than any of his contemporaries that the worst traitors to the cause of liberty often go by the name of liberals. This indispensable collection of Minogue’s essays has been carefully chosen, edited and introduced by Timothy Fuller, whose understanding of the man and his thought is unsurpassed.” ―Daniel Johnson, founding editor of Standpoint Introduction: Kenneth Minogue (1930-2013) Timothy Fuller vii Essays Kenneth Minogue "A. Fable of Time and Class." Spring 1961 1 "How to Make Trends and Influence People." Summer 1961 10 "The Modern Liberal's Casebook." Summer 1962 20 "Can One Teach 'Political Literacy'?" June 1979 35 "Choice, Consciousness and Ideological Language." 1982 49 "The Roots of Modern Dogmatism." June 1983 71 "The Conditions of Freedom and the Condition of Freedom." 1984 99 "The Goddess that Failed." November 1991 127 "Can Scholarship Survive the Scholars?" Fall 1991 135 "Totalitarianism: Have We Seen the Last of It?" Fall 1999 150 "Some Doubts About Democracy: How the Modern State Is Evolving." 2002 166 "Two Concepts of the Moral Life." September 2005 186 "Seduction & Politics." November 2006 200 "Conservatism Sc the Morality of Impulse." January 2008 214 "Marriage in Our Time." June 2009 223 "Morals & the Servile Mind." June 2010 237 "The Irresponsibility of Rights." November 2010 248 "The Intellectual Left's Treason of the Heart." September 2011 259 "Individualism and Its Contemporary Fate." Fall 2012 270 "The Self-Interested Society." September 2013 289 Acknowledgments 305 Bibliography 306 Index 321 This collection of nineteen of Kenneth Minogue's essays, written over a period of more than fifty years, celebrates the advent of modern liberty. They describe the conditions under which liberty and individuality can flourish and the threats to liberty's flourishing in our time. Minogue offers a powerful critique of political correctness, of ideological flights from reality, and of the deformities of study in the modern university.