Politikk som idékamp: Et intellektuelt gruppeportrett av Minerva-kretsen 1957–1972 (English: Politics as Idea Struggle: An Intellectual Group Portrait of the Minerva Circle 1957–1972) is a 2007 book by Johannes W. Løvhaug.

"The Minerva-circle found themselves in combat on multiple intellectual arenas: They felt squeezed between the Labour Party state and the free enterprise liberalism and tried to create a platform for a third, conservative point of view in Norwegian politics."

In a review for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Tarjei Skirbekk stated that it was "a good book", and that Løvhaug delivered an "interesting approach to the history of the Minerva circle and the society within which it operated".

[4] Conversely, Ottar Brox, writing for the far-left daily newspaper Klassekampen, labelled the book a "paradoxical celebration of the front figures of the right-wing revolution".

[5] In an article published in the left-liberal weekly Morgenbladet, journalist Pål Veiden opined that the book was too sympathetically inclined to the Minerva circle, and that it told many uninteresting details about the periodical.