{"product_id":"from-ideologies-to-public-philosophies-isbn-9781405168366","title":"From Ideologies to Public Philosophies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom Ideologies to Public Philosophies: An Introduction to Political Theory\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive and systematic account of the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries—along with contemporary and emerging outlooks—to address the essential questions of political theory.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries while making clear distinctions for the reader between often-confused interpretations of ideologies\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEngaging 'reader friendly' style will appeal to students and facilitate sophisticated discussions\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDevelops and defends pluralism as a broad public policy that is accepted by diverse political groups\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eSupported by a glossary of terms, suggestions for further reading, and other helpful student and instructor resources at www.blackwellpublishing.com\/schumaker\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1. Constructing Our Public Philosophies\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublic Philosophies and Political Ideologies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical Theory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSearching for an Underlying Consensus Within Pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeas Beyond the Underlying Consensus of Pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Participants in our Political Conversations.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2. Voices from the Major Ideologies of the Nineteenth Century\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberalism: Building Democratic Capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatism: Defending the Old Social Order.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchism: Rebelling Against Authority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxism: Pursuing a Classless Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3. Prominent Totalitarian and Pluralist Voices of the Twentieth Century\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunism: Fighting Imperialism in Developing Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascism and Nazism: Totalitarian Control to Strengthen the Collective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberalism: Reforming Capitalism and Democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatism: Opposing Liberal and Socialist Programs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4. Radical and Extremist Voices in Contemporary Politics\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Seeking More Egalitarian and Communal Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Seeking More Economic Freedom or Moral Consensus.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Returning to More Homogeneous Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Deconstructing Global Neoliberalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Philosophical Assumptions: Their Importance as Foundations for Political Principles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5. Questions of Ontology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Emphasizing “The Great Chain of Being”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Deism, Naturalism and Materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Natural Interconnections, Ideas, and Conflicts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Economic Determinism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Revising Dialectical Materialism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Heroic Will and Racial Struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Deemphasizing Ontology and Embracing Contingency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Accepting the World As It Is.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Refuting Charges of Economic and Divine Determination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Expecting a Divine Apocalypse.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Tempering Material Forces with Socialist Ideals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Releasing Human Imagination, Constrained by Ecological Limits.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6. Questions of Human Nature\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Humans as Equal and Rational Pursuers of Happiness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Defining Humans by their Places in Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Seeing Human Altruism as Hindered by Conventional Institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Conceiving Humans as Creative Laborers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Creating a “New Man”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Energizing the Will of “the Herd”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Fostering Autonomy, Reason, and Moral Development.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Stressing our Common Humanity and Individual Differences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Accepting Human Imperfection.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Embedding Humans in Free Markets and\/or Moral Communities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Regarding Humans as either Good or Evil.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Rejecting an Essential Human Nature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7. Questions of Society\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Individuals Seeking Mutual Benefits Through a Social Contract.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Organic Societies that Come Before Individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Natural Societies Built on Friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Transforming Class-Based Societies into Classless Ones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Non-Proletarian Contributions to a Classless Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Defining Societies in Nationalist and Racist Terms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Promoting Social Pluralism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Seeing Society as a Delicate Watch.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Holding either Libertarian or Communitarian Visions of Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Searching for More Communal and Egalitarian Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Seeking Homogeneous Societies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Longing for Societies of “Singularities Pursuing the Common”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8. Questions of Epistemology\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Moving from Natural Rights to Utilitarianism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Doubting Reason, Stressing Conventional Wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Depending on a Vision of Human and Social Possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: A Science Showing the Inevitability, not the Goodness, of Communism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Generating Truths from Authoritative Readings of Marx.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Finding Absolute Truth in the Intuitions of a Political Leader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Emphasizing Pragmatism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Using a Social Science of Political Failure.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Finding Meaning in Tradition and Truth through Science.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Emphasizing Political Rationality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Finding Truth in Authoritative Texts and Leaders.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Contesting and Deconstructing all Truths.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: The Great Issues of Politics: Consensual and Contested Principles.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e9. Questions of Community\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Presupposing the Primacy Of Nations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Patriots Lacking Nationalist Fervor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Rejecting Conventional Communities While Seeking Natural Ones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Identifying with the Working Class and Eventually Humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Fighting Imperialism Through Nationalist Appeals.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Embracing a Unified Nation and an Aryan State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Nations Built on Individual and Group Differences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Seeking Moral, but not Communitarian, Countries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Competing Global, National, and Sub-National Loyalties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Pursuing Solidarity among Diverse People in Many Polities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Rejecting Multiple Community Identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Deconstructing Current Identities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e10. Questions of Citizenship.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Curbing Citizenship, Providing Limited Rights and Obligations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Stressing Loyalty and Obedience to Authorities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Comrades Without Political Obligations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Transforming Alienated Workers into Public-Spirited Comrades.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Transforming Oppressed People into Obedient Revolutionaries.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Mobilizing Dutiful Citizens for Purposes of State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Pursuing Inclusion and Expanding Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Developing More Responsible Citizens.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Privileging Property Rights and Instilling Virtue.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Embracing Multiple and Deep Citizenships.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Restricting Citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Changing Passive Citizens into Contentious Ones.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e11. Questions of Structure.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Designing Free Markets and Representative Democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Emphasizing Civil Society and Cultural Norms.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Rejecting All Conventional Structures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Stressing the Oppression of Capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Emphasizing Party Organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Empowering Totalitarian States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Balancing and Integrating Government and Capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Reining in Strong States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: More Freedom in the Marketplace and Less Cultural Freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Pursuing Market Socialism and Democratic Cultures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Seeking Theocracies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Fighting Globalization and Other New Forms of Domination.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e12. Questions of Rulers\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Empowering Representatives While Holding Them Accountable.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Finding a Place for Elitism Within Democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Rejecting All Rulers.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: The Need for a Temporary Dictatorship of the Proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: The Need for a Vanguard of the Proletariat.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Concentrating Power in the Hands of a Single Leader.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: More Representative and Responsive Democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: More Inclusive and Participatory Democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: More Formal Representative Democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Democracy as Freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Imagining Conspiracies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Seeing Formidable Obstacles to Global and Radical Democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e13. Questions of Authority\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Authorizing Limited Governments that Secure (Property) Rights.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Orchestrating Social Harmony.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Rejecting all Governmental Authority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Authority as Oppressive, then Necessary, and Finally Eliminated.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Justifying Massive Authority as a Means to Abolish the State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Embracing Totalitarian State Authority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: From Limited Government to a Strong State.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Limiting the Activity of Governments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Starving Government While Imposing Social Regulations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Enhancing the Public Sphere.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Resisting Authority that Disregards Sacred Texts.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Contesting Governmental Authority.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e14. Questions of Justice.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Equal Dignity but Unequal Rewards.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Unequal Rights but Commensurate Responsibilities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Right Conduct in the Absence of Just Institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Transcending the Circumstances of Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Using Social Control to Build a Society in which All Needs are Met.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: National or Racial Dominance as More Important than Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Compensating for Undeserved Disadvantages.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Pursuing a More Egalitarian Society.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Criticizing Social Justice, Emphasizing Compassion.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Focusing on Fair Procedures and the Pursuit of the Common Good.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Regarding Moral Goodness as the Basis of Just Outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Decrying Global Injustice while Striving to Share “the Common”.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e15. Questions of Change\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eClassical Liberals: Seeking Economic, Intellectual, and Moral Progress.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTraditional Conservatives: Slowing the Winds of Change.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMarxists: Predicting Revolution From Below.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAnarchists: Calling for Rebellion rather than Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunists: Generating Revolutions While Deviating From Marxist Orthodoxy.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFascists and Nazis: Revolutionary Change Toward Certain Conservative Values.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Liberals: Achieving Fundamental Change Incrementally.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContemporary Conservatives: Pursuing Reforms – of “Failed” Liberal Programs.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Right: Seeking Major Changes, even if they Enhance Inequalities.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Right: Returning to a Past of Greater Moral Certainty.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Radical Left: Evolutionary Change Toward More Democratic Equality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Extreme Left: Wholesale and Ongoing Change – Without Revolutions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"The strengths of this work are many. Schumaker's schematic analysis of political ideas is thorough but never pedantic, and he illustrates his analysis with frequent and compelling examples. The result is a thoughtfully written text which will invite students into an interconnected dialogue about their most basic political beliefs. Students whose first exposure to political ideologies and philosophies comes through Schumaker's book will appreciate better not only their own opinions, but will have a better grasp of the advantages and limitations of a pluralistic system like our own, which allows other people's opinions to flourish as well.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eRussell Arben Fox, Friends University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003ePaul Schumaker\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, where he has taught courses in political theory and community politics since 1972. Dr. Schumaker has authored several books on political theory, including \u003ci\u003eCritical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power\u003c\/i\u003e (1991).  What are the rights and duties of citizens? Who should rule? What is justice? How far should the authority of government extend? These are among the perennial questions of political theory. \u003cp\u003eThis innovative textbook facilitates a comprehensive and systematic understanding of these and other questions by describing the alternative answers provided by the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries, and by a wide variety of contemporary radical and extremist perspectives. The book demonstrates that adherents to these various outlooks can come to greater agreement about these questions than is often recognized.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIdeal as text for first courses in both political theory and political ideologies, students of the book gain both a deep appreciation of the diversity of political thought and of the ideas that are central to the governance of pluralist democracies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989248098533,"sku":"NP9781405168366","price":123.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405168366.jpg?v=1761783369","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/from-ideologies-to-public-philosophies-isbn-9781405168366","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}