Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader

by Terence Ball (Editor), Richard Dagger (Editor), Daniel I. O'Neill (Editor), Jennet Kirkpatrick (Editor)

Overview

-X, Ball, Terrence and Dagger, Richard, Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, Fourth Edition*\ This highly acclaimed collection of original sources put readers directly in touch with the political thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world. Present readers with key selections from a wide array of original sources, from classic standards to newly emerging ideologies. A logical organization, introductions to each selection, and new explanatory notes make this book accessible and engaging. For those interested in political science and ideologies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781032204437
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/29/2024
Edition description:	12th ed.
Pages:	608
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

TERENCE BALL received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley and is now Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Arizona State University. He taught previously at the University of Minnesota and has held visiting professorships at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the University of California, San Diego. His books include Transforming Political Discourse (1988), Reappraising Political Theory (1995), and a mystery novel, Rousseau’s Ghost (1998). He has also edited The Federalist (2003), James Madison (2008), Abraham Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches (2013), and coedited The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought (2003).

RICHARD DAGGER earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has taught at Arizona State University and Rhodes College, and the University of Richmond, where he is currently the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts. He is the author of many publications in political and legal philosophy, including Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism (1997) and Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problem of Punishment (2018).

DANIEL I. O’NEILL holds a Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles and is now Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (2007), coeditor of Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman (2008), and author, most recently, of Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire (2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction.

I. THE CONCEPT OF IDEOLOGY.

1. Ideology: The Career of a Concept, Terrell Carver.

II. THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL.

2. Democracy and Despotism, Euripides.

3. Funeral Oration, Pericles.

4. Democratic Judgement and the "Middling" Constitution, Aristotle.

5. What's Wrong with Princely Rule?, Niccolo Machiavelli.

6. What Is a Republic?, John Adams.

7. Bill of Rights of the United States.

8. Democracy and Equality, Alexis de Tocqueville.

9. Democratic Participation and Political Education, John Stuart Mill.

10. Town Meetings and Workers' Control, Michael Walzer.

III. LIBERALISM.

11. The State of Nature and the Basis of Obligation, Thomas Hobbes.

12. Toleration and Government, John Locke.

13. Government, Rights, and the Bonds Between Generations, Thomas Paine.

14. Declaration of Independence of the United States.

15. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen.

16. Private Profit, Public Good, Adam Smith.

17. Freedom and Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant.

18. Liberty and Individuality, John Stuart Mill.

19. The Fitness of Things, William Graham Sumner.

20. Liberalism and Positive Freedom, T. H. Green.

21. Paternalism vs. Democracy, Donald Allen.

22. Libertarian Anarchism, Murray Rothbard.

23. The Limitations of Libertarianism, Thomas A. Spragens, Jr.

IV. CONSERVATISM.

24. Society, Reverence, and the "True Natural Aristocracy", Edmund Burke.

25. Conservatism as Reaction, Joseph de Maistre.

26. The Poet as Conservative, William Wordsworth.

27. Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega y Gasset.

28. On Being Conservative, Michael Oakeshott.

29. The Woodpeckers and the Starlings, Jacquetta Hawkes.

30. Modern Liberalism and Cultural Decline, Robert Bork.

31. A Religious Conservative Vision for America, Ralph Reed.

V. SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM: MORE TO MARX.

32. Utopia, Thomas Moore.

33. Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark, Robert Owen.

34. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

VI. SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM AFTER MARX.

35. Evolutionary Socialism, Eduard Bernstein.

36. Revisionism, Imperialism, and Revolution, V. I. Lenin.

37. The Permanent Revolution, Leon Trotsky.

38. On the People's Democratic Dictatorship, Mao Zedong.

39. Anarcho-Communism vs. Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin.

40. Anarchism: What it Really Stands For, Emma Goldman.

41. Fabian Socialism, George Bernard Shaw.

42. Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy.

43. Socialism and Democracy, Carol C. Gould.

VII. FASCISM.

44. Civilization and Race, Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau.

45. The Doctrine of Fascism, Benito Mussolini.

46. The Political Theory of Fascism, Alfredo Rocco.

47. Nation and Race, Adolf Hitler.

VII. LIBERATION IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICAL IDENTITY.

48. Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.

49. Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity, Steve Biko.

50. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft.

51. The Equality of the Sexes, Sarah Grimke.

52. The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.

53. Oppression, Marilyn Frye.

54. Homosexuality: The Nature and Harm of Arguments, John Corvino.

55. Spirituality, Equality, and Natural Law, Oren Lyons.

56. Liberation Theology, Gustavo Guterrez.

57. All Animals are Equal, Peter Singer.

IX. "GREEN" POLITICS: ECOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY.

58. The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold.

59. Getting Along with Nature, Wendell Berry.

60. Putting the Earth First, Dave Foreman.

61. Thinking Green!, Petra Kelly.

X. THE FUTURE OF IDEOLOGY.

Editorial Reviews

A collection of original sources by major political thinkers, covering a range of political ideologies. Readings are arranged in sections on the concept of ideology, the democratic ideal, liberalism, conservatism, socialism and communism from Thomas More to Karl Marx, socialism and communism after Marx, fascism, liberation ideologies and the politics of identity, and green politics. New to this fourth edition are explanatory notes which translate foreign words, identify people and events, and supply historical context. There are also two new essays included. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

"An anthology of classic readings, Ideals and Ideologies has itself become a classic. This is a deep reflection on and of our political world. Introducing students to the powerful ideas that have mobilized and inspired political actors and causes across the contemporary landscape, it is a wonderful teaching tool and useful reference guide. Chosen for accessibility as well as significance, and updated with important and timely new voices, each reading is expertly introduced by the editors. This eleventh edition maintains the high standards one has come to expect from Ball, Dagger, and O’Neill." — Simone Chambers, University of California-Irvine, USA

"The reason this anthology is now in its eleventh edition is that Ball, Dagger and O’Neil strike the right balance between historical and contemporary as they expertly select, introduce and contextualize essential readings for the study of political ideologies. Offering an accessible and profound account of the significance and role of ideas in politics, Ideas and Ideologies continues to hold its place as one of the leading introductory textbooks for undergraduate teaching of political theory." — Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest University, USA

"An anthology of classic readings, Ideals and Ideologies has itself become a classic. This is a deep reflection on and of our political world. Introducing students to the powerful ideas that have mobilized and inspired political actors and causes across the contemporary landscape, it is a wonderful teaching tool and useful reference guide. Chosen for accessibility as well as significance, and updated with important and timely new voices, each reading is expertly introduced by the editors. This eleventh edition maintains the high standards one has come to expect from Ball, Dagger, and O’Neill." — Simone Chambers, University of California-Irvine, USA

"This long-essential reader continues to demonstrate the relevance of political ideologies for the present. Combining classic texts in the history of political thought with decisive declarations and manifestos, the most recent edition invites study of new texts from Egan, Kagan, Keyssar and Loomis as well as the Black Lives Matter movement." — Michaelle L. Browers, Wake Forest University, USA

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