
Ideologies
An Analytic and Contextual Approach
Larry Johnston(Author)
University of Toronto Press
2nd Edition
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-4426-0034-8 (ISBN)
Description
Ideologies offers a fresh treatment of liberalism, conservatism, and socialism, as well as an examination of contemporary social movements such as feminism and environmentalism.
Professor Johnston treats each ideology as a product of the intersection of ideas and particular socio-historical contexts. Thus liberalism, conservatism, and socialism are discussed first in the context of the transition from feudal society to liberal modernity, and again as they have evolved within the shifting contexts provided by ascendant liberalism. In this way it is possible to distinguish the often diverse bodies of opinion that employ a common ideological label, and at the same time, sketch and emerging ideological consensus that frequently cuts across ideological lines.
Ideologies contains separate chapters on the liberal democratic consensus that has developed around conceptions of justice and democracy on the one hand, and the utility of the market economy on the other. Challenges to this twentieth century consensus from within the liberal democratic tradition are represented by anarchism, populism, feminism, and environmentalism. External challenges from currents of authoritarianism, nationalism, and fundamentalism are also discussed, along with ideologies once powerful but currently out of favour-fascism and Marxist-Leninism. In the final chapter, the strengths and weaknesses of ideology are judged, and its future prospects assessed.
Professor Johnston treats each ideology as a product of the intersection of ideas and particular socio-historical contexts. Thus liberalism, conservatism, and socialism are discussed first in the context of the transition from feudal society to liberal modernity, and again as they have evolved within the shifting contexts provided by ascendant liberalism. In this way it is possible to distinguish the often diverse bodies of opinion that employ a common ideological label, and at the same time, sketch and emerging ideological consensus that frequently cuts across ideological lines.
Ideologies contains separate chapters on the liberal democratic consensus that has developed around conceptions of justice and democracy on the one hand, and the utility of the market economy on the other. Challenges to this twentieth century consensus from within the liberal democratic tradition are represented by anarchism, populism, feminism, and environmentalism. External challenges from currents of authoritarianism, nationalism, and fundamentalism are also discussed, along with ideologies once powerful but currently out of favour-fascism and Marxist-Leninism. In the final chapter, the strengths and weaknesses of ideology are judged, and its future prospects assessed.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
349 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4426-0034-8 (9781442600348)
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12/1995
Broadview Press Ltd
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Person
Larry Johnston is the author of Ideologies: An Analytic and Conceptual Approach (1996) and Between Transcendence and Nihilism (1995). A legislative researcher in Toronto since 1998, he was an academic consultant to the Ontario Citizens' Assembly on Electoral Reform in 2006. He has taught a variety of politics courses at the University of Toronto, McMaster University, and Ryerson University.
Content
Preface
Definitions and Dimensions
a. Ideology Defined
b. The Content of Ideology
c. The Contexts of Ideology
Ideologies: First Generation
a. Liberalism
b. Conservatism
c. Socialism
Ideologies: The Second Generation
a. Liberalism Reforms
b. Liberal Conservatism
c. Socialist Schisms
Towards Consensus: Justice and Democracy
a. Justice
b. Democracy
Towards Consensus: Market Society
Third Generation: Challenging the Consensus
a. Anarchism
b. Populism
c. Feminism
d. Environmentalism
Outside the Consensus
a. Authoritarianism
b. Nationalism
c. Marxism-Leninism/Stalinism
d. Fascism & Religious Fundamentalism
The Prospects of Ideology
a. Ideology in the National Context
b. Ideology and Party
c. Beyond Ideology?
Bibliography
Index
Definitions and Dimensions
a. Ideology Defined
b. The Content of Ideology
c. The Contexts of Ideology
Ideologies: First Generation
a. Liberalism
b. Conservatism
c. Socialism
Ideologies: The Second Generation
a. Liberalism Reforms
b. Liberal Conservatism
c. Socialist Schisms
Towards Consensus: Justice and Democracy
a. Justice
b. Democracy
Towards Consensus: Market Society
Third Generation: Challenging the Consensus
a. Anarchism
b. Populism
c. Feminism
d. Environmentalism
Outside the Consensus
a. Authoritarianism
b. Nationalism
c. Marxism-Leninism/Stalinism
d. Fascism & Religious Fundamentalism
The Prospects of Ideology
a. Ideology in the National Context
b. Ideology and Party
c. Beyond Ideology?
Bibliography
Index