Synopses & Reviews
This reader complements GREAT IDEAS/GRAND SCHEMES. Together, the text and reader provide students with a comprehensive and systematic introduction to political theories and ideologies in the 19th and 20th centuries. This reader provides introductions regarding the context and basic ideas of twelve ideologies and the nature and importance of ideologies in general and the author of each article and his or her concerns and contributions.
Table of Contents
PrefaceCHAPTER 1: Ideology in Political LifePolitical Theory and Ideology, Judith N. ShklarCHAPTER 2: Classical LiberalismSecond Treatise of Government, John LockeThe Wealth of Nations, Adam SmithDeclaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens, The National Assembly of FranceOn Liberty, John Stuart MillA Liberation Conception of Distributive Justice, Robert NozickCHAPTER 3: Traditional ConservatismReflections on the Revolution in France, Edmund BurkeSpeech to Constituents of Bristol, Edmund BurkeThe Problem of Social Justice, Russell KirkCHAPTER 4: AnarchismAnarchism: What it Really Stands For, Emma GoldmanMutual Aid, Peter KropotkinLetter to "La Liberte", Mikhail BakuninThe Conflict Between Authority and Autonomy, Robert Paul WolffCHAPTER 5: MarxismThe Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts, Karl MarxPrinciples of Communism, Friedrich EngelsThe Manifesto of the Communist Party, Karl Marx and Friedrich EngelsSocialism: Utopian and Scientific, Friedrich EngelsMarx and Distributive Justice, Robert C. TuckerCHAPTER 6: CommunismSelections, V.I. LeninSelections, Mao Tse-TungSelections, Liberation TheologyCHAPTER 7: Facism and NazismMein Kampf, Adolph HitlerThe Doctrine of Facism, Benito MussoliniSelections, The Aryan NationsCHAPTER 8: Contemporary LiberalismFreedom and Culture, John DeweyLetter from Birmingham Jail, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.A Kantian Conception of Equality, John RawlsFor a New Equality, Mickey KausCHAPTER 9: Democratic SocialismEvolutionary Socialism, Eduard BernsteinA Participatory Theory of Democracy, Carole PatemanJustice Here and Now, Michael WalzerCorporate Collectivism: A System of Social Injustice, Michael HarringtonCHAPTER 10: Contemporary ConservatismThe Democratic Distemper, Samuel HuntingtonThe Moral Hazards of Liberalism, George GilderA Capitalists Conception of Justice, Irving KristolPreferential Policies: An International Perspective, Thomas SowellA Social Conservative Credo, Charles KrauthammerCHAPTER 11: FundamentalismUncomfortable Questions for Comfortable Jews, Rabbi Meir KahaneFundamentalism is Alive and Well, Jerry FalwellIslam and Revolution, Ayatollah KhomeiniCHAPTER 12: EnvironmentalismThe Land Ethic, Aldo LeopoldCreating Ecological Economy, Petra KellyThe Case for Animal Rights, Tom ReganCHAPTER 13: FeminismThe Seneca Falls Declaration, Elizabeth Cady StantonThe Feminist Standpoint, Nancy HartsockJustice, Gender, and Family, Susan Moller OkinIn a Different Voice, Carol GilliganCHAPTER 14: Beyond IdeologyThe End of History?, Francis FukuyamaNietzsche: Politics and Homesickness, William E. ConnollyThe Idea of Humane Uncertainty, Glenn Tinder