From Ideologies to Public Philosophies
An Introduction to Political Theory
1. Auflage Januar 2008
504 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Kurzbeschreibung
From Ideologies to Public Philosophies: An Introduction to Political Theory provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries--along with contemporary and emerging outlooks--to address the essential questions of political theory.
What are the rights and duties of citizens? Who should rule? What is justice? How far should the authority of government extend? These are among the perennial questions of political theory.
This innovative textbook facilitates a comprehensive and systematic understanding of these and other questions by describing the alternative answers provided by the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries, and by a wide variety of contemporary radical and extremist perspectives. The book demonstrates that adherents to these various outlooks can come to greater agreement about these questions than is often recognized.
Ideal as text for first courses in both political theory and political ideologies, students of the book gain both a deep appreciation of the diversity of political thought and of the ideas that are central to the governance of pluralist democracies.
1. Constructing Our Public Philosophies.
Part I: Participants in our Political Conversations.
2. Voices from the Major Ideologies of the Nineteenth Century.
3. Prominent Totalitarian and Pluralist Voices of the Twentieth Century.
4. Radical and Extremist Voices in Contemporary Politics.
Part II: Philosophical Assumptions: Their Importance as Foundations for Political Principles.
5. Questions of Ontology.
6. Questions of Human Nature.
7. Questions of Society.
8. Questions of Epistemology.
Part III: The Great Issues of Politics: Consensual and Contested Principles.
9. Questions of Community.
10. Questions of Citizenship.
11. Questions of Structure.
12. Questions of Rulers.
13. Questions of Authority.
14. Questions of Justice.
15. Questions of Change.
Conclusions.
Notes.
References.
Index