ISBN : 9780199585977
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 standpoints of conceptual history, Marx studies, social science theory and history, and leading schools of continental philosophy. The second includes some of the most recent interpretations and theories of ideology, all of which are sympathetic in their own ways to its exploration and close investigation, even when judiciously critical of its social impact. This section contains many of the more salient contemporary accounts of ideology. The third focuses on the leading ideological families and traditions, as well as on some of their cultural and geographical manifestations, incorporating both historical and contemporary perspectives. Each chapter is written by an expert in their field, bringing the latest approaches and understandings to their task. The Handbook will position the study of ideologies in the mainstream of political theory and political analysis and will attest to its indispensability both to courses on political theory and to scholars who wish to take their understanding of ideologies in new directions.
Preface
PART I: THE HISTORY OF IDEOLOGY AND OF IDEOLOGY STUDIES
1. Ideology and Conceptual History
2. Marxism and Ideology: From Marx to Althusser
3. Karl Mannheim and Political Ideology
4. Total and Totalitarian Ideologies
5. Social Science and Ideology: The Case of Behavioralism in American Political Science
6. The End of Ideology Thesis
PART II: CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF IDEOLOGY
7. The Morphological Analysis of Ideology
8. Contemporary Critical Theory
9. Poststructuralist Conceptions of Ideology
10. Ideology and Discourse
11. Ideology and Political Rhetoric
12. Political Ideologies in the Age of Globalization
13. Political Ideologies and their Social Psychological Functions
14. Ideology and the Intellectuals
15. Postcolonialism
PART III: IDEOLOGICAL FAMILIES AND TRADITIONS
16. Conservatism
17. Christian Democracy
18. Liberalism
19. Social Democracy
20. Communism
21. Anarchism
22. Economic Libertarianism
23. Green Ideology
24. Ideology and Utopia
25. Nationalism
26. Fascism
27. Populism
28. Republicanism
29. Ideologies of Empire
30. Feminism
31. Latin American Political Ideologies
32. Modern African Ideologies
33. Islamic Political Ideologies
34. Chinese Political Ideologies
35. South Asian and Southeast Asian Ideologies