Ideologies and Political Theory : A Conceptual Approach.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THEORIZING ABOUT IDEOLOGICAL MORPHOLOGY -- 1. Staking Out: The Distinctiveness of Analysing Ideologies -- (a) The Conceptual Histories of Ideology -- (b) In Search of a Single Concept -- (c) Analytical Misconceptions -- (d) Rival Epistemologies -- (e) Philosophy and Ideology: The Unholy Alliance -- (f) Unconscious and Rhetorical Components of Ideology -- (g) Ideology and the Limits on Logic -- (h) The Ubiquity and Specificity of Ideology -- 2. Assembling: From Concepts to Ideologies -- (a) Political Words and Political Concepts -- (b) Reassessing Essential Contestability -- (c) The Morphology of Political Concepts -- (d) Logical and Cultural Adjacency -- (e) The Morphology of Ideologies -- (f) The Escape from Strong Relativism -- 3. Applying: The Contexts of Ideological Meaning -- (a) The Inevitability of History -- (b) Contextual History and Intentionality -- (c) Ideology and Hermeneutics -- (d) The Contribution of Begriffsgeschichte -- (e) Competing Viewpoints and the Path to Integration -- (f) Structure and Morphology -- (g) Meeting Some Objections -- (h) Ideologies as Vehicles of Political Theory -- PART II: LIBERALISM: THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY -- Preliminary Observations -- 4. The 'Grand Projects' of Liberalism -- (a) Identifying the Millite Core -- (b) Democracy and Other Adjacencies -- (c) Peripheral Permutations -- (d) French Connections and Disconnections -- 5. New Liberal Successions: The Modernization of an Ideology -- (a) The Idealist Liberalism of T. H. Green -- (b) Perimeter Practices and Adjacent Aftermaths -- (c) The New Liberalism: The Evolution of an Ideology -- (d) The Changing Adjacencies of Liberty -- (e) The Organic Analogy -- (f) Fleshing Out the New Liberal Morphology -- (g) State, Group, and Society: The German Case -- (h) State, Group, and Society: The French Case.

6. The Challenge of Philosophical Liberalism: Contextualizing the Contemporary American Variant -- (a) Political Liberalism and its Constraints -- (b) Carving Out the Political? -- (c) The Kantian Horizon -- (d) Is Equality a Liberal Core Concept? -- (e) Liberalism and Community -- (f) Liberal Neutrality -- 7. Mistaken Identities and Other Anomalies: The Liberal Pretenders -- (a) Libertarianism: An Attenuated Ideology -- (b) The Individual and Liberty: The Retreat to Non-Constraint -- (c) In Defence of Property -- (d) The Break with Liberalism -- (e) Hayek: An Appeal to the Old Liberals -- (f) Anarchism: The View from Liberty -- PART III: THE ADAPTABILITY OF CONSERVATISM -- 8. Theorizing about Conservative Ideology -- (a) Oakeshott: Conservatism à la Carte -- (b) The Chameleon Contra the Status Quo: Two Discarded Theories -- (c) The Conservative Core: Resolving a Morphological Puzzle -- 9. The Chimera of Conservative Dualism -- (a) The Multiple Counter-Defences of British Conservatism -- (b) The Cases against Socialism -- (c) Parrying Liberal Advances -- (d) Cecil's Conservatism -- (e) American Conservatism: Parallel Thoughts -- (f) Libertarianism Reappraised -- (g) Conservatism and Public Debate -- 10. Forward to the Past-The Conservative Revival -- (a) Thatcherism as Conservatism -- (b) The Subservience of Economics -- (c) 'Who is the Fiercest of Them All?' -- (d) Recent American Conservatisms -- (e) The Unity of Thatcherite Ideology -- PART IV: SOCIALISM: THE CONTAINMENT OF TRANSCENDENCE -- 11. The Congruence of Socialist Diversity -- (a) Pre- and Proto Socialisms -- (b) The Socialist Core -- (c) History: The Fifth Core Concept -- (d) Socialism and Democracy -- (e) Socialism and Power -- (f) The 'Socialist Clause' and the State -- (g) Class and Property -- (h) The Socialist Periphery -- 12. Socialism, Liberty, and Choice.

(a) The Pursuit of Liberalism by Other Means -- (b) Equality and Liberty: A Partnership of Equals? -- (c) The Fundamental Nature of Revisionism -- (d) Continental Comparisons -- (e) The Perimeter Problem of Market Socialism -- (f) A Note on Other Socialisms -- PART V: TRANSFORMATION AND DILUTION: THE ASSAULT ON IDEOLOGICAL CONVENTION -- Preliminary Observations -- 13. Feminism: The Recasting of Political Language -- (a) The Feminist Core: Between Critique and Prescription -- (b) Gender and Power -- (c) The Political Domain -- (d) Paradigms Lost and Regained -- (e) Postmodernism: An Alliance of Convenience? -- (f) Equality and the Feminist Traditions -- (g) An Ideological Reading of Ideologies -- (h) The Role of the Concrete -- 14. Green Ideology: Retreat and Regrouping -- (a) The Core Concepts of Green Discourse -- (b) Deficient Dichotomies -- (c) Conservative Components? -- (d) The Individualist Ingredient -- (e) The Ambivalence of Power -- (f) The Green Perimeter -- (g) Eco-feminism: A Distinct Position? -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Subject Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

The distinguished political theorist Michael Freeden offers a ground-breaking new approach to the role of ideologies in the political world. His magisterial study covers all the key ideologies from Liberalism, Conservatism, and Socialism to feminism and Green political thought. This is an essential volume for all those working or studying in the area.

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