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352 pp.
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ISBN-13:
9780195445473

Copyright Year:
2013

Imprint: OUP Canada


Readings in Political Ideologies since the Rise of Modern Science

H. B. McCullough and Wolfgang Depner

This comprehensive reader explores core ideas and theorists through classic and contemporary primary source readings. Including Canadian examples and engaging pedagogy throughout, this text covers a wide range of diverse and intersecting ideologies to give students a well-rounded introduction to the discipline.

Readership : Political ideologies and political theory courses, usually offered in second or third year through political science departments at universities and colleges. Readings in Political Ideologies since the Rise of Modern Science will also serve as a supplementary text for second- and third-year political philosophy courses where the course is cross-listed with the political science department.

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  • "It has a lot of variety - there should be something for everyone. I really like the smattering of Canadian content wherever appropriate. The authors have made a serious attempt to include a wide range of relevant yet often surprising material."
    --Edward King, Concordia University

  • "The introductions are excellent. . . .[H]ighly readable, exceeding many other texts."
    --Jason Zorbas, University of Saskatchewan

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Classical Liberalism
1. John Locke: Of Property
2. Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu: Of the Principles of the Three Kinds of Government
3. Adam Smith: Of Restraints upon the Importation from Foreign Countries of Such Goods as Can Be Produced at Home
4. Immanuel Kant: What Is Enlightenment?
5. James Madison: No. 10
Part Two: Conservatism
6. Edmund Burke: Reflections on the Revolution in France
7. Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy
8. Russell Kirk: Ten Conservative Principles
9. William F.Buckley Jr.: To Preserve What We Have
10. Roger Scruton: Leisure, Cult, and Culture
Part Three: Reform Liberalism
11. John Stuart Mill: Introductory
12. John Dewey: Renascent Liberalism
13. John Maynard Keynes: The End of Laissez-Faire
14. Pierre Elliott Trudeau: Federalism and the French Canadians
15. John Rawls: Principles of the Law of Peoples
16. Will Kymlicka: Liberalism in Culturally Plural Societies
Part Four: Marxism
17. Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels: Bourgeois and Proletarians
18. Vladimir I. Lenin: Imperialism, as a Special Stage of Capitalism
19. Sigmund Freud: Civilization and Its Discontents
20. Mao Tse-tung: On Contradiction
21. Rosa Luxemburg: The Nationalities Question
22. B. S. Chimni: Marxism and International Law
Part Five: Democratic Socialism
23. R.H. Tawney: Liberty and Equality
24. David Lewis and Frank Scott: Regina Manifesto
25. Peter Self: The Revival of Political Choice
26. Anthony Giddens: Neoprogessivism: A New Agenda for Social Democracy
27. Linda McQuaig: Nudists and Capitalists
Part Six: Fascism and Neo-nationalism
28. F.T. Marinetti: The Futurist Manifesto
29. Benito Mussolini: The Political and Social Doctrine of Fascism
30. Adolf Hitler: The Twenty-Five Points of the German Workers' Party, 1920
31. Hannah Arendt: An Expert on the Jewish Question
32. Detlev F. Vagts: International Law in the Third Reich
33. Geert Wilders: Speech
Part Seven: Pacifism
34. Leo Tolstoy: Nobel's Bequest: A Letter Addressed to a Swedish Editor
35. M.K.Gandhi: The Theory and Practice of Satyagraha
36. Aldous Huxley: Morality of Pacifism
37. Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
38. Ursula Franklin: The Nature of War in a Technological Society
Part Eight: Neo-liberalism and Globalization
39. M. Frederic Bastiat: Government
40. James M. Buchanan: Classical Liberalism as an Organizing Ideal
41. Jagdish Bhagwati: Two Critiques of Globalization
42. Alan Greenspan: Education and Income Inequality
43. Naomi Klein: Blank Is Beautiful: Three Decades of Erasing and Remaking the World
Part Nine: Feminism
44. Lorenne M.G. Clark: Women and Locke: Who Owns the Apples in the Garden of Eden?
45. Susan Moller Okin: The Barely Visible Family
46. Martha C. Nussbaum: The Capabilities Approach
47. Lorraine Code: A Feminist Epistemology
48. Alice Schwarzer: The Function of Sexuality in the Oppression of Women
49. Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Portrait of a Heroine as a Young Woman
Part Ten: Environmentalism
50. Arne Naess: A Platform of the Deep Ecology Movement
51. Andrew Dobson: Deep Ecology: Ethics as a Code of Conduct
52. World Scientists' Warning to Humanity
53. Murray Bookchin: Freedom and Necessity in Nature: A Problem in Ecological Ethics
54. John Barry: Greening Social Theory
Part Eleven: Religious Fundamentalism
55. Harry Emerson Fosdick: Shall the Fundamentalists Win?
56. Kevin Phillips: Church, State, and National Decline
57. Sayyidd Qutb: The Present and Future of Islam
58. Michael Feige: Hostile Visitors: The Palestinians in the Settlers' Worldview
59. Motti Inbari: Rabbi Avraham Yitzak Hacohen Kook and Merkaz Harava Yeshiva
Additional Readings and Web Links
Glossary
References
*Note: Every part includes:
- Introduction
- Critical Thinking Questions
- Biographies

There are no Instructor/Student Resources available at this time.

H.B. McCullough is a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan. He is the author of several books and journal articles on political philosophy and ideologies, including OUP's Political Ideologies.

Wolfgang Depner is a Ph.D. candidate and instructor in interdisciplinary studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

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Special Features

  • The only political ideologies reader to include Canadian examples, allowing students to relate to theories within a familiar context.
  • Covers theories of democracy and globalization, increasingly popular topics in political ideology, as well as more traditional ideologies such as conservatism, Marxism, and pacifism.
  • Fifty-nine readings from a wide variety of time periods, thinkers, geographical regions, and ideologies expose students to key concepts and ideas, preparing them for upper-year courses.
  • The only political ideologies reader to include pedagogical aids such as critical thinking questions, theorist biographies, an extensive glossary, and additional readings to further student engagement and understanding.