Description
This book comprehensively collects the thinking - over the last 25 years - of one the most important contemporary scholars in the field of ideology studies.
Clearly organised, it expounds on the changing nature of the sub-discipline, its components and methods of investigation. As such, it serves the need for a general, well-informed identification and elaboration of thematic possibilities in current ideology studies and represents the most developed and productive methodological approach to the study of ideologies in the last three decades. Freeden presents ideology studies as an evolving and vibrant field, encountering and surmounting a series of challenges in its successful path towards recognition as a fully legitimate and respected branch of political theory.
This book will be of key interest to students and scholars of political ideologies, political theory, political philosophy and more broadly to sociology, political science, anthropology, human geography, international studies and the humanities.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part 1: Staking out the macro-agenda
Prelude
1. Ideology and political theory
2. What is special about ideologies?
3. Fundaments and foundations in ideology
Part 2: Unfolding vistas and paradigms
Prelude
4. Interpretative realism and prescriptive realism
5. The ‘political turn’ in political theory
6. The resurgence of ideology studies: Twenty years of the JPI
7. The coming realignment in ideology studies
Part 3: Boundaries and intersections
Prelude
8. The ‘beginning of ideology’ thesis
9. Ideologies and conceptual history
10. Emotions, ideology, and politics
11. What fails in ideologies?
12. On pluralism through the prism of ideology
Part 4: Lived ideology
Prelude
13. The politics of ceremony: The Wootton Bassett phenomenon
14. After the Brexit referendum: Revisiting populism as an ideology
15. Liberalism in the limelight
16. Loose talk costs … nothing: The rise of the ideolonoids
17. Democracy dis-integrated: The current conceptual confusion
