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Format:
Paperback
472 pp.
171 mm x 246 mm

ISBN-13:
9780199248377

Copyright Year:
2005

Imprint: OUP UK

Political Ideologies

A Reader and Guide

Edited by Matthew Festenstein and Michael Kenny

Political Ideologies: A Reader and Guide provides an extensive collection of extracts from the texts of major intellectuals, politicians, and writers within some of the most important ideological traditions in modern politics, which are interspersed with editorial commentaries. These offer a general historical introduction to each thinker and the particular text, highlight key thematic features of the passages and alert the reader to significant overlaps and points of difference between different authors within and across different ideological traditions.

This is the first volume to provide such an extensive range of texts and to cover both established and newer political ideologies. The volume illustrates the complex evolution of ideological traditions in various national settings and highlights how these developed through rival interpretations of some of the key concepts of modern political discourse.

Readership : Undergraduate students studying political ideology.

Reviews

Review from previous edition: "This is by far the best available anthology on political ideologies. It should be required reading for all courses on the topic."
Professor Michael Freeden, University of Oxford
"This is simply the best single reader on political ideologies. The texts are judiciously chosen, they cover all the relevant issues, and allow students to examine not just the historical origins of different ideologies, but their contemporary transformations as well."
Professor Pratap Mehta, Harvard University
"The combination of lucid commentary and carefully selected extracts from primary sources makes this book an indispensable resource for students studying political ideologies."

Dr Steve Buckler, University of Birmingham

Introduction
1. The Concept of Ideology
2. Liberalism
3. Conservatism
4. Socialism
5. Nationalism
6. Feminism
7. Ecologism
8. Anarchism
9. Fascism
10. New Forms
11. The Ends of Ideology

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Matthew Festenstein is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. His research is in political theory and late nineteenth and early twentieth century political thought.

Michael Kenny is a Professor in the Department of Politics at the University of Sheffield. He is a member of the editorial boards of the journals New Political Economy and Contemporary Political Theory.

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Special Features

Distinctively large collection of extracts from primary texts, covering all the main traditions in Western political thought, and allowing flexible choice of material to fit course requirements.
Wide choice of extracts from the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, allowing the book to be used on lots of different courses.
The extracts are interspersed with substantial editorial commentaries that give an account of the intellectual shape and development of each ideology, designed to help students get a fuller understanding of the content.
The lively reader-friendly writing style makes a complex subject readily accessible to all students.