Ultima carte a profesorului Minogue, aparuta in 2010, a fost „The Servile Mind: How Democracy Erodes the Moral Life”. As an ageing warrior, he grew breathless in his pursuit of smaller and smaller dragons-for the big dragons were now harder to come by.” He could only live by fighting for causes-the people, the poor, the exploited, the colonially oppressed, the underprivileged and the underdeveloped.

The more he succeeded, the more he became bewitched with the thought of a world free of dragons, and the less capable he became of ever returning to private life. During the nineteenth century, his lance was never still, prodding this way and that against the inert scaliness of privilege, vested interest, or patrician insolence. These battles won, he rested for a time, until such questions as slavery, or prison conditions, or the state of the poor, began to command his attention. The first dragons upon whom he turned his lance were those of despotic kingship and religious intolerance. George, in the guise of Rationality, appeared in the world somewhere about the sixteenth century. After many centuries of hopelessness and superstition, St. „The story of liberalism, as liberals tell it, is rather like the legend of St. Intr-un fel, putem spune ca ideile lui Minogue au pregatit critica liberalismului intreprinsa de John Gray si de Roger Scruton. Spiritelor exaltate, celor intoxicati cu viziuni salvationiste, partizanilor unui etatism mereu in expansiune, Minogue le-a opus decenta, moderatia si civilitatea ca valori esentiale ale unui spatiu politic transparent si onest.Ĭartea lui Minogue, „The Liberal Mind,” scrisa in anii 60, a oferit una dintre cele mai fertile interpretari ale crizei gandirii liberale. A fost convins si a demonstrat in opera sa ca adevaratul liberalism, cel fidel traditiei lui Adam Smith, Adam Ferguson, Benjamin Constant, Tocqueville si John Stuart Mill, este consonant cu conservatorismul.

Pentru toti cei inclinati spre gandirea deziderativ- utopica, pentru pasionatii diverselor forme de inginerie sociala, profesorul Minogue, el insusi fost student al lui Michael Oakeshott, a fost un adversar redutabil.

A incetat din viata unul dintre cei mai influenti si respectati ganditori politici ai timpurilor noastre, profesorul Kenneth Minogue de la London School of Economics.

Cortina de ceață by Vladimir Tismăneanu