Introduction to Political Ideologies

By: Hoffman, JohnContributor(s): Graham, PaulMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London: Pearson Longman, 2006Description: xxix, 282p. ill. ; 25 cmISBN: 1405824395Subject(s): Political science -- Philosophy | Political ideologiesDDC classification: 320.5
Contents:
Theory as Abstraction -- The Distinction between Facts and Values -- The Problem with the Contestability Thesis -- Part 1. Classical Ideologies -- Origins and Development of the Term -- Isms as Ideologies -- Mannheim's Paradox: Are We Stuck? -- Facts, Values and the State -- Chapter 1. Liberalism -- Chapter Map -- Test Case: Prostitution Laws in Sweden -- The Meaning of Liberalism -- Liberalism as Toleration -- The Reformation and Wars of Religion -- Toleration -- Contractarianism -- Rights-based Liberalism -- Locke -- Kant -- Utilitarianism -- Conclusion: the Swedish Case Study -- Chapter 2. Conservatism -- Test Case: Reform or Revolution? -- Conservatism: an Elusive Ideology? -- Basic Elements of Conservatism -- David Hume -- Edmund Burke -- Michael Oakeshott -- Leo Strauss and American Neo-conservatism -- Chapter 3. Socialism -- Test Case: Tanks in the Streets of Prague -- The Problem of Variety -- Defining Socialism -- The Problem of Utopia -- Science and the 'Utopian Socialists' -- Introducing Marxism -- The Authoritarian Consequences of 'Scientific Socialism' -- The Inevitability Argument -- The Concept of Class War and the Problem of Morality -- The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism -- Eduard Bernstein and the German Socialists -- Bernstein, Revisionism and the British Tradition -- Bernstein's Argument -- The British Labour Party and the Fabians -- The Labour Party, Constitutionalism and the Trade Unions -- Blair's Socialism -- International Social Democrats -- Can Marxism be Rescued? -- The Notion of Revolution -- The Inevitability Problem and the Liberal Tradition -- The Question of Class and Agency -- Socialism and Inevitability -- The Problem of Utopianism -- Chapter 4. Anarchism -- Test Case: Death in Genoa -- The Relationship with Socialism -- Philosophical Anarchists -- Free Market Anarchists -- Anti-capitalist Anarchists: Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin -- The Argument So Far ... -- Republican Spain and the Anarchist Experience -- The Problem of Violence -- Anarchism and the New Social Movements -- The Problem of Organisation and Relationships -- The Problem of Hierarchy -- The Question of Self-determination and Constraint -- Anarchism and the Distinction between State and Government -- Chapter 5. Nationalism -- Test Case: Mountains, Muesli, Cuckoo Clocks and Yodellers -- Nations and Nationalism -- Modernism versus Perennialism -- Modernist Theories -- Perennialist Theories -- Nationalism: the Ethical Debate -- Implications of the Modernist-Perennialist Debate -- State versus Nation -- Civic Nationalism and Ethnic Nationalism -- Nationalism and Exclusivity -- Liberalism and Nationalism: Mill and Herder -- Liberalism versus Nationalism -- John Stuart Mill -- Johann Gottfried von Herder -- Socialism and Nationalism: Marx and Engels -- Conclusion: Banal Nationalism -- Chapter 6. Fascism -- Test Case: 'Never Again': Contemporary Forms of Fascism -- Defining Fascism -- Fascism and Communism -- Fascism and Religion -- Fascism and Liberalism -- Fascism and Conservatism -- Fascism in Italy -- Nationalism and War -- Corporativism, Violence and the State -- Intellectual Roots -- Fascism in Germany -- A Brief History -- Anti-capitalism -- Statism, Women and Colonialism -- Fascism and Capitalism -- Fascism, Liberalism and the Enlightenment -- The State of Nature, Equality and the Individual -- Nationalism -- Rationality -- Fascism, Stalinism and the State -- Stalinism -- Fascism Today -- The Unrepentant Apologists -- The Holocaust Deniers -- The Critical Fascists -- Eurofascism -- Nationalist Salvation -- Part 2. New Ideologies -- Social and Economic Change -- Critique of Classical Ideologies -- Chapter 7. Feminism -- Test Case: Women's Work? -- Liberal Feminism -- Mary Wollstonecraft -- John Stuart Mill -- Liberal Feminism in Britain and the United States -- Problems with Liberal Feminism -- Radical Feminist Critique -- Socialist Feminist Critique -- Other Critiques -- Socialist Feminism -- Engels's Contribution -- Bebel and Later Socialists -- Women in the Communist Party States -- The Domestic Labour Debate -- Problems with Socialist Feminism -- Liberal Feminist Critique -- Radical Feminist Critique -- Black Feminists and the Philosophical Feminist Critique -- Radical Feminism -- Problems with Radical Feminism -- Liberal Feminist Critique -- Socialist Feminist Critique -- Black Feminists and the Philosophical Feminist Critique -- Black Feminism -- Problems with Black Feminism -- Liberal, Socialist and Radical Feminist Critiques -- The Critique of Philosophical Feminisms -- Philosophical Feminisms -- Feminist Empiricism -- Standpoint Feminism -- Postmodern Feminism -- Problems with the Philosophical Feminisms -- Liberal Feminist Critique -- Socialist, Radical and Black Feminist Critiques -- Chapter 8. Multiculturalism -- Test Case: Religious Dress Ban: Equality or Oppression? -- What is Multiculturalism? -- Culture, Race, Ethnicity and Religion -- Culture -- Race and Ethnicity -- Religion -- Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Modernity -- Models of Multiculturalism -- Jeremy Waldron: Hybridity -- Will Kymlicka: Right to Cultural Membership -- James Tully: Constitutional Diversity -- John Rawls: Overlapping Consensus -- Edward Said: Critique of Orientalism -- Assessment: Identity, Reason and Freedom -- Multiculturalism: the New Wars of Religion? -- Chapter 9. Ecologism -- Test Case: Nuclear Power? Yes Please! -- Ecologism or Environmentalism? -- Environmental Crisis and Green Politics -- Environmental Crisis -- Green Politics -- Aldo Leopold and the 'Land Ethic' -- Arne Naess and 'Deep Ecology' -- Garrett Hardin and the Ethics of the Lifeboat -- Summary and Criticisms of Ecologism -- Summary of Ecologism -- Criticisms of Ecologism -- Chapter 10. Fundamentalism -- Test Case: The Diversity of Fundamentalisms -- Label or Concept? -- Fundamentalism and Religion -- Fundamentals and Fundamentalism -- Modernity and Tradition -- Fundamentalism, Democracy and Violence -- What is Islamic Fundamentalism? -- US Fundamentalism and the Religious Right -- Jewish Fundamentalism and the Israeli State -- 'The Clash of Civilisations': a Fundamentalist Thesis? -- Conclusion: Academic Political Theory and Politics.
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Theory as Abstraction --
The Distinction between Facts and Values --
The Problem with the Contestability Thesis --
Part 1. Classical Ideologies --
Origins and Development of the Term --
Isms as Ideologies --
Mannheim's Paradox: Are We Stuck? --
Facts, Values and the State --
Chapter 1. Liberalism --
Chapter Map --
Test Case: Prostitution Laws in Sweden --
The Meaning of Liberalism --
Liberalism as Toleration --
The Reformation and Wars of Religion --
Toleration --
Contractarianism --
Rights-based Liberalism --
Locke --
Kant --
Utilitarianism --
Conclusion: the Swedish Case Study --
Chapter 2. Conservatism --
Test Case: Reform or Revolution? --
Conservatism: an Elusive Ideology? --
Basic Elements of Conservatism --
David Hume --
Edmund Burke --
Michael Oakeshott --
Leo Strauss and American Neo-conservatism --
Chapter 3. Socialism --
Test Case: Tanks in the Streets of Prague --
The Problem of Variety --
Defining Socialism --
The Problem of Utopia --
Science and the 'Utopian Socialists' --
Introducing Marxism --
The Authoritarian Consequences of 'Scientific Socialism' --
The Inevitability Argument --
The Concept of Class War and the Problem of Morality --
The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism --
Eduard Bernstein and the German Socialists --
Bernstein, Revisionism and the British Tradition --
Bernstein's Argument --
The British Labour Party and the Fabians --
The Labour Party, Constitutionalism and the Trade Unions --
Blair's Socialism --
International Social Democrats --
Can Marxism be Rescued? --
The Notion of Revolution --
The Inevitability Problem and the Liberal Tradition --
The Question of Class and Agency --
Socialism and Inevitability --
The Problem of Utopianism --
Chapter 4. Anarchism --
Test Case: Death in Genoa --
The Relationship with Socialism --
Philosophical Anarchists --
Free Market Anarchists --
Anti-capitalist Anarchists: Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin --
The Argument So Far ... --
Republican Spain and the Anarchist Experience --
The Problem of Violence --
Anarchism and the New Social Movements --
The Problem of Organisation and Relationships --
The Problem of Hierarchy --
The Question of Self-determination and Constraint --
Anarchism and the Distinction between State and Government --
Chapter 5. Nationalism --
Test Case: Mountains, Muesli, Cuckoo Clocks and Yodellers --
Nations and Nationalism --
Modernism versus Perennialism --
Modernist Theories --
Perennialist Theories --
Nationalism: the Ethical Debate --
Implications of the Modernist-Perennialist Debate --
State versus Nation --
Civic Nationalism and Ethnic Nationalism --
Nationalism and Exclusivity --
Liberalism and Nationalism: Mill and Herder --
Liberalism versus Nationalism --
John Stuart Mill --
Johann Gottfried von Herder --
Socialism and Nationalism: Marx and Engels --
Conclusion: Banal Nationalism --
Chapter 6. Fascism --
Test Case: 'Never Again': Contemporary Forms of Fascism --
Defining Fascism --
Fascism and Communism --
Fascism and Religion --
Fascism and Liberalism --
Fascism and Conservatism --
Fascism in Italy --
Nationalism and War --
Corporativism, Violence and the State --
Intellectual Roots --
Fascism in Germany --
A Brief History --
Anti-capitalism --
Statism, Women and Colonialism --
Fascism and Capitalism --
Fascism, Liberalism and the Enlightenment --
The State of Nature, Equality and the Individual --
Nationalism --
Rationality --
Fascism, Stalinism and the State --
Stalinism --
Fascism Today --
The Unrepentant Apologists --
The Holocaust Deniers --
The Critical Fascists --
Eurofascism --
Nationalist Salvation --
Part 2. New Ideologies --
Social and Economic Change --
Critique of Classical Ideologies --
Chapter 7. Feminism --
Test Case: Women's Work? --
Liberal Feminism --
Mary Wollstonecraft --
John Stuart Mill --
Liberal Feminism in Britain and the United States --
Problems with Liberal Feminism --
Radical Feminist Critique --
Socialist Feminist Critique --
Other Critiques --
Socialist Feminism --
Engels's Contribution --
Bebel and Later Socialists --
Women in the Communist Party States --
The Domestic Labour Debate --
Problems with Socialist Feminism --
Liberal Feminist Critique --
Radical Feminist Critique --
Black Feminists and the Philosophical Feminist Critique --
Radical Feminism --
Problems with Radical Feminism --
Liberal Feminist Critique --
Socialist Feminist Critique --
Black Feminists and the Philosophical Feminist Critique --
Black Feminism --
Problems with Black Feminism --
Liberal, Socialist and Radical Feminist Critiques --
The Critique of Philosophical Feminisms --
Philosophical Feminisms --
Feminist Empiricism --
Standpoint Feminism --
Postmodern Feminism --
Problems with the Philosophical Feminisms --
Liberal Feminist Critique --
Socialist, Radical and Black Feminist Critiques --
Chapter 8. Multiculturalism --
Test Case: Religious Dress Ban: Equality or Oppression? --
What is Multiculturalism? --
Culture, Race, Ethnicity and Religion --
Culture --
Race and Ethnicity --
Religion --
Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Modernity --
Models of Multiculturalism --
Jeremy Waldron: Hybridity --
Will Kymlicka: Right to Cultural Membership --
James Tully: Constitutional Diversity --
John Rawls: Overlapping Consensus --
Edward Said: Critique of Orientalism --
Assessment: Identity, Reason and Freedom --
Multiculturalism: the New Wars of Religion? --
Chapter 9. Ecologism --
Test Case: Nuclear Power? Yes Please! --
Ecologism or Environmentalism? --
Environmental Crisis and Green Politics --
Environmental Crisis --
Green Politics --
Aldo Leopold and the 'Land Ethic' --
Arne Naess and 'Deep Ecology' --
Garrett Hardin and the Ethics of the Lifeboat --
Summary and Criticisms of Ecologism --
Summary of Ecologism --
Criticisms of Ecologism --
Chapter 10. Fundamentalism --
Test Case: The Diversity of Fundamentalisms --
Label or Concept? --
Fundamentalism and Religion --
Fundamentals and Fundamentalism --
Modernity and Tradition --
Fundamentalism, Democracy and Violence --
What is Islamic Fundamentalism? --
US Fundamentalism and the Religious Right --
Jewish Fundamentalism and the Israeli State --
'The Clash of Civilisations': a Fundamentalist Thesis? --
Conclusion: Academic Political Theory and Politics.

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