Irving, Sean (2024) Competitiveness, Civilizationism, and the Anglosphere: Kenneth Minogue’s Place in Conservative Thought. Modern Intellectual History, 21 (2). pp. 469-488. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S147924432400009X
Irving, Sean (2024) Competitiveness, Civilizationism, and the Anglosphere: Kenneth Minogue’s Place in Conservative Thought. Modern Intellectual History, 21 (2). pp. 469-488. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S147924432400009X
Irving, Sean (2024) Competitiveness, Civilizationism, and the Anglosphere: Kenneth Minogue’s Place in Conservative Thought. Modern Intellectual History, 21 (2). pp. 469-488. DOI https://doi.org/10.1017/S147924432400009X
Abstract
This article contributes to an understanding of postimperial civilizational thinking within British conservatism by engaging with the work of Kenneth Minogue, an understudied but important thinker. Minogue played a key role in reframing an older discourse, centred on empire, in the register of free-market economics and global “competitiveness.” During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a significant figure on the New Right, critiquing university radicalism, feminism, and multiculturalism. During the 1990s his thought took a civilizational turn, and he condemned the liberal projects of political elites for undermining the West's traditional competitive ethos. The bureaucracy of the European Union and the economic rise of East Asian “state societies” were particular concerns for Minogue and led him to champion the concept of the Anglosphere as a distinct civilization.
Item Type: | Article |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 13 May 2024 16:07 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 21:05 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/38373 |
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