Abstract
Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics and Political Science published The Third Way in 1998. What does "Third Way" mean? For The author, the goal is a renewal of the social-democracy. Through this phrase he refers to a framework of thinking and policy-making that seeks to adapt social democracy to a world which has changed fundamentally over the past two or three decades? It is a third way in the sense that it is an attempt to transcend both old style social democracy and neo-liberalism. This book seeks to show how a political idealism can be revived, because "a political life is nothing without ideals but this last years the ideals of the left have fallen, and it is necessary to rebuild a new doctrine and ideology". I am not going to judge the work of Giddens, but simply sum up his view on the contemporary society, the political life (particularly the one in Great Britain) and his proposals for a renew of the left. Then, it will shortly expose the impact of his work in England and the entire world.
