Sir Robert Gordon Menzies was the founder of the Liberal Party of
Australia. As well as being Australia's longest-serving prime
minister, Menzies was the most thoughtful. Menzies' world picture
was one where Britishness was the overriding normative principle,
and in which cultural puritanism and philosophical idealism were
pervasive. Unless we remember this cultural background of Menzies'
thought then we will seriously misunderstand what he meant by the
very project of liberalism. The Forgotten Menzies argues that
Menzies' greatest aspiration was to protect the ideals of cultural
puritanismin Australia from two kinds of materialism: communism;
and the mindset encouraged by affluence and technological progress.
Central to Menzies' project of cultural and civilisational
preservation was the university, an institution he spent much of
his career extolling and expanding.The Forgotten Menzies makes an
important contribution to the history of political thought and
ideology in Australia, as to understanding the largely forgotten
but rich intellectual origins of the Liberal Party.
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