Lost in ideology
interpreting modern political life
- ISBN: 9781788216630
- Editorial: Agenda Publishing
- Fecha de la edición: 2024
- Lugar de la edición: New Castle Upon Tyne. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Rústica
- Medidas: 22 cm
- Nº Pág.: 208
- Idiomas: Inglés
Modern political life is a confusing and disorientating terrain of competing ideologies. Jason Blakely offers readers a lively, fresh and insightful guide through the labyrinth of conflicting and competing ideas in order to better understand why ideology in the modern era can be so divisive.
Lost in Ideology sets out from the conviction that the current disorientation engulfing the world's liberal democracies is in no small part ideological in origin. People feel confused because there are multiple ideological maps, so to speak, each marked by dramatically different points of interest, rivers, summits, roads, and total topographies. Ideology in the modern era has the paradoxical effect of orienting millions even as it disorients millions. This leads us to the present-day predicament in which individuals of every imaginable political stripe confidently declare: "I have a theory - but you? You have an ideology!"
Introduction: in search of ideology
Part I Strange Roots: Early America
1 Liberal by nature: varieties of classical liberalism
2 Other foundings: civic republicanism and white supremacy
Part II Polarizations: The Left and the Right
3 Dueling liberalisms: progressives versus right libertarians
4 In the name of the past: conservatism's multiple traditions
5 There is no "fascist minimum": fascist bundles and hybridizations
6 Is socialism still taboo? From Marxism to Bernie Sanders Part III Liquifying Ideology: Beyond Left and Right
7 Hiding in plain sight: nationalism and multiculturalism
8 There are many feminisms: the advent of sexual politics
9 The meaning of the Earth: the challenges of ecological politics
Conclusion: the age of ideologies