Understanding Dogmas and Dreams: A Text - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1566430445 ISBN 13 : 9781566430449

Editeur : Chatham House Publishers Inc.,U.S., 1998

Synopsis

According to the author, political ideologies are the value-laden, conflict-ridden philosophical substance of modern politics. Ideologies perform an important political function: they bridge the gap between theory an practice. Their role as the "translators" of ideas into action is what has prompted this study. This work is intended to be used with its companion volume, the second edition of "Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies". The author places the study of ideologies in historical and analytic context, and aims to guide students toward a deeper understanding of modern politics, a better informed choice among political values and a more democratic approach to political theory. The analysis covers liberalism and democracy, conservativism, socialism, anarchism, fascism, feminism and ecology and ideology. Wherever possible, the text illustrates the effects of theoretical ideas with examples from practical politics. These include discussions of Lani Guinier on proportional representation, Charles Murray on affirmative action, Vaclav Havel on post-totalitarian politics, Murray Bookchin on sustainable communities and Audre Laude on multicultural feminism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Nancy Love's concise yet complete volume aims to inform students of their choices among political values. By exploring the assumptions of various ideologies and comparing their positions, students begin to understand political alternatives to be able to choose among them in essence, they learn to think democratically. Offering historical and analytic context for the selections in her companion reader, Dogmas and Dreams, Love challenges students to consider the various ways ideological frameworks shape political actions. Reframing her approach in this second edition, Love examines how traditional left/right ideologies liberalism and conservatism, socialism and fascism are shifting to adapt to new political realities in an ever turbulent, post-9/11 world. She also discusses why alternative ideologies feminism, environmentalism, fundamentalism, and globalization may better convey our global political future. While pushing the boundaries of the left/right political spectrum, she looks at how grassroots social movements offer alternative ways to view ideological differences, from cluster-concepts to micro-discourses, and even a planetary galaxy. Expanded coverage includes: a new chapter on nationalism and globalization, which examines the work of Samuel Huntington, Kenichi Ohmae, Benjamin Barber, and many more, to explore fundamentalism in Islamic politics increased coverage of global environmental politics, including Shiva s Stolen Harvest and Kelly s Thinking Green, examining the relationships between developed and developing countries fresh material on socialist politics post-1989 and the rise of neo-fascist movements in the United States and Europe, including analysis of Hayden and Flacks The Port Huron Statement at 40 and Bob Moser s The Age of Rage an updated feminism chapter that considers the impact of third-wave, post-colonial, and so-called power feminists and incorporates new analysis of Wollstonecraft s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Mohanty s Under Western Eyes Revisited A thinking person s package... Nancy Love wrote Understanding Dogmas and Dreams with her edited collection in mind the two work together as a seamless package and give students great value for their money. Order the two books shrink-wrapped at significant savings

Biographie de l'auteur

Nancy S. Love is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, where she received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1991. She has also taught at Swarthmore College and Cornell University. Professor Love received her AB degree from Kenyon College and her PhD from Cornell University. She is the author of Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity, published by Columbia University Press in 1986 (reissued 1996), and editor of Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies, 3rd edition (CQ Press, 2006), to which this volume is a companion text. Her work appears in anthologies on critical theory and in the following journals: differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; New German Critique; Polity; Studies in Soviet Thought; Theory and Event; Theory, Culture, and Society; and Women and Politics. Professor Love s next book entitled, Musical Democracy, is in production with the SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chatham House Publishers Inc.,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1566430445
• ISBN 13: 9781566430449
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 208
• Éditeur: Love Nancy S.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible