Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader

by Ball, Terence; Dagger, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780321077752
• ISBN10: 032107775X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-01
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

This highly lauded reader, now in a new, updated Fourth Edition, introduces students to the isms that have shaped modern politics. Presenting key selections from a wide array of original sources, this collection covers the gamut of ideologiesfrom the classic standards to newly emerging ideologiesand puts students directly in touch with the thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world. A logical organization, introductions to each selection, and new explanatory notes make Ball & Dagger's reader accessible and engaging for students. The Fourth Edition of the best-selling companion text, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, has also been updated and revised to reflect new developments in political thinking and movements. (Give Value Pack ISBN 0-201-75352-9 to your bookstore to order the text & reader package).

Table of Contents

Preface to the Fourth Edition	ix
About the Authors	xi
Introduction	xiii
PART ONE The Concept of Ideology	1	(10)
Ideology: The Career of a Concept	3	(8)
Terrell Carver
PART TWO The Democratic Ideal	11	(52)
Democracy and Despotism	14	(2)
Euripides
Funeral Oration	16	(5)
Pericles
Democratic Judgment and the ``Middling'' Constitution	21	(5)
Aristotle
What's Wrong with Princely Rule?	26	(4)
Niccolo Machiavelli
What Is a Republic?	30	(6)
John Adams
Bill of Rights of the United States	36	(2)
Democracy and Equality	38	(8)
Alexis de Tocqueville
Democratic Participation and Political Education	46	(7)
John Stuart Mill
Town Meetings and Workers' Control	53	(10)
Michael Walzer
PART THREE Liberalism	63	(74)
The State of Nature and the Basis of Obligation	66	(7)
Thomas Hobbes
Toleration and Government	73	(15)
John Locke
Government, Rights, and the Bonds Between Generations	88	(4)
Thomas Paine
Declaration of Independence of the United States	92	(3)
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizens	95	(3)
Private Profit, Public Good	98	(3)
Adam Smith
Freedom and Enlightenment	101	(3)
Immanuel Kant
Liberty and Individuality	104	(7)
John Stuart Mill
According to the Fitness of Things	111	(4)
William Graham Summer
Liberalism and Positive Freedom	115	(4)
T. H. Green
Paternalism vs. Democracy: A Libertarian View	119	(4)
Donald Allen
Libertarian Anarchism	123	(4)
Murray Rothbard
The Limitations of Libertarianism	127	(10)
Thomas A. Spragens, Jr.
PART FOUR Conservatism	137	(52)
Society, Reverence, and the ``True Natural Aristocracy''	139	(7)
Edmund Burke
Conservatism as Reaction	146	(4)
Joseph de Maistre
The Poet as Conservative	150	(3)
William Wordsworth
Revolt of the Masses	153	(4)
Jose Ortega y Gasset
On Being Conservative	157	(9)
Michael Oakeshott
The Woodpeckers and the Starlings	166	(4)
Jacquetta Hawkes
Modern Liberalism and Cultural Decline	170	(8)
Robert H. Bork
A Religious Conservative Vision for America	178	(11)
Ralph Reed
PART FIVE Socialism and Communism: More to Marx	189	(26)
Utopia	191	(7)
Thomas More
Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark	198	(4)
Robert Owen
The Communist Manifesto	202	(13)
Karl Marx
Friedrich Engels
PART SIX Socialism and Communism After Marx	215	(72)
Evolutionary Socialism	217	(6)
Eduard Bernstein
Revisionism, Imperialism, and Revolution	223	(13)
V. I. Lenin
The Permanent Revolution	236	(4)
Leon Trotsky
On the People's Democratic Dictatorship	240	(10)
Mao Zedong
Anarcho-Communism vs. Marxism	250	(3)
Mikhail Bakunin
Anarchism: What It Really Stands For	253	(9)
Emma Goldman
Fabian Socialism	262	(5)
George Bernard Shaw
Looking Backward	267	(10)
Edward Bellamy
Socialism and Democracy	277	(10)
Carol C. Gould
PART SEVEN Fascism	287	(40)
Civilization and Race	289	(7)
Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau
The Doctrine of Fascism	296	(8)
Benito Mussolini
The Political Theory of Fascism	304	(6)
Alfredo Rocco
Nation and Race	310	(17)
Adolf Hitler
PART EIGHT Liberation Ideologies and the Politics of Identity	327	(78)
Letter from Birmingham Jail	330	(11)
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity	341	(6)
Steve Biko
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman	347	(5)
Mary Wollstonecraft
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes	352	(8)
Sarah Grimke
Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions	360	(4)
Oppression	364	(9)
Marilyn Frye
Homosexuality: The Nature and Harm Arguments	373	(9)
John Corvino
Spirituality, Equality, and Natural Law	382	(6)
Oren Lyons
Liberation Theology	388	(6)
Gustavo Gutierrez
All Animals Are Equal	394	(11)
Peter Singer
PART NINE ``Green'' Politics: Ecology as Ideology	405	(36)
The Land Ethic	408	(11)
Aldo Leopold
Getting Along with Nature	419	(8)
Wendell Berry
Putting the Earth First	427	(6)
Dave Foreman
Thinking Green!	433	(8)
Petra Kelly
Postscript The Future of Ideology	441