Kenneth Minogue Livres

The book explores the stark contrast between the desperate struggles of individuals fleeing oppressive regimes and the romanticized views of those regimes held by progressive intellectuals. It highlights the irony of people risking their lives for freedom while academics criticize the very societies that offer refuge, framing Western life as oppressive despite the stark realities faced by those under despotism. This tragicomedy reflects ongoing tensions between reality and ideology in the context of modern migration and political discourse.

In A Very Short Introduction to Politics , Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising from a historical account of politics, and goes on to offer chapters dealing with the Ancient Greeks and the idea of citizenship; Roman law; medieval Christianity and individualism; freedom since Machiavelli and Hobbes; the challenge of ideologies; democracy, oligarchy, and bureaucracy; power and order in modern society; and politics in the West.About the Combining authority with wit, accessibility, and style, Very Short Introductions offer an introduction to some of life's most interesting topics. Written by experts for the newcomer, they demonstrate the finest contemporary thinking about the central problems and issues in hundreds of key topics, from philosophy to Freud, quantum theory to Islam