Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. However, no one has been able to explain the nature of ideologies themselves. In this important new book, Freeden offers a ground-breaking approach to the subject. Drawing on the political experience of Britain, France, Germany, and the USA over the last two hundred years, the author provides an in-depth examination of all the key political ideologies: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, feminism, and green political thought.
Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. However, no one has been able to explain the nature of ideologi...
This is an examination of each of the major ideologies that have shaped political thinking, action and conflict. Each chapter provides a critical overview of the state of these ideologies and a retrospective assessment of the strengths, weaknesses, developments and transformations of these ideologies over the 20th century. The volume aims to pose a challenge to those who have loudly proclaimed the end of ideology, by demonstrating that it is impossible to understand current political developments without an appreciation of their ideological context. It features contributors who are...
This is an examination of each of the major ideologies that have shaped political thinking, action and conflict. Each chapter provides a critical over...
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of the 'end of ideology' thesis, not as a theoretical stance but as a reaction to what appears to have been the decline of major ideological families, such as socialism, in a changing world order. Globalization, as well as internal national fragmentation of belief systems, have made it difficult to identify ideology in its conventional formats.
Previously published as a special issue of The Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, this volume challenges the notion that we are living in a post-ideological age....
Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of the 'end of ideology' thesis, not as a theoretical stance but as a reaction to what appears to have bee...
Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to welfare and community. Written by one of the world's leading experts on liberalism and ideological theory, it uses new methods of analyzing ideologies, as well as historical case studies, to present liberalism as a flexible and rich tradition whose influence has extended beyond its conventional boundaries.
Michael Freeden argues that liberalism's collectivist and holistic aspirations, and its sense of change, its self-defined mission as...
Liberal Languages reinterprets twentieth-century liberalism as a complex set of discourses relating not only to liberty but also to wel...
This edited book introduces students and scholars to comparative political thought. Featuring contributions from an international line-up of scholars, it examines what can we learn from non-Western traditions of political thought, how we compare different strands of national and regional political thought, and much more.
This edited book introduces students and scholars to comparative political thought. Featuring contributions from an international line-up of scholars,...
Michael (Professor of Politics, University of Nottingham) Freeden
Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misappropriations. Its history carries a crucial heritage of civilized thinking, of political practice, and of philosophical-ethical creativity. This Very Short Introduction unpacks the concept of liberalism and its various interpretations through three diverse approaches. Looking at its historical and theoretical development, analysing the liberal ideology, and understanding liberalism as a series of ethical and philosophical principles, this is...
Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as misap...
This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifestations. The diversity of ideology studies is represented by a mixture of the range of theories that illuminate the field, combined with an appreciation of the changing complexity of concrete ideologies and the emergence of new ones. Ideologies, however, are always with us. The Handbook is divided into three sections: The first reflects some of the latest thinking about the development of ideology on an historical dimension, from the...
This is the first comprehensive volume to offer a state of the art investigation both of the nature of political ideologies and of their main manifest...
What does it mean to say that human beings think politically, and what is distinctive about that kind of thinking? That question is all-too infrequently asked by political theorists, or is dealt with through generalizations, abstractions, and dichotomies. This study examines the actual, real-world patterns people display when thinking politically, identifying six features of political thinking. They include the role of making ultimate decisions and regulating all social affairs, ranking collective priorities, mobilizing support for groups or withholding it, conceptualizing social order and...
What does it mean to say that human beings think politically, and what is distinctive about that kind of thinking? That question is all-too infrequent...
This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its analysis, emphasizing the input of different intellectual and scholarly traditions to the meaning of ideology.
The articles explore commonalities in the use and understanding of ideology as well as delineating constructive differences in its interpretation, while illuminating the changes that the concept of ideology, as well as the practices it signifies, has undergone in recent years. Contributions are included from the fields of political...
This is the first collection to bring together leading scholars from diverse disciplines to offer a variety of perspectives on ideology and its ana...
The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a landmark intervention in the historiography of concepts. It brings together ambitious thematic studies that combine the pioneering methods of historian Reinhart Koselleck with contemporary insights and debates, each one illuminating a key feature of the European conceptual landscape. With clarifying overviews of such contested theoretical terrain as translatability, spatiality, and center-periphery dynamics, it also provides indispensable...
The result of extensive collaboration among leading scholars from across Europe, Conceptual History in the European Space represents a la...
