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Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 5/E
Terence Ball, Arizona State University
Richard Dagger, Arizona State University

ISBN-10: 0321159756
ISBN-13: 9780321159755

Publisher: Longman
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 464 pp
Published: 06/24/2003

This item has been replaced by Ideals and Ideologies: A Reader, 7/E.

This update of Ball & Dagger's celebrated reader introduces students to the “isms” that shape modern politics.

Presenting key selections from a wide array of original sources, this collection covers the gamut of ideologies—from the classic “standards” to newly emerging ideologies—and puts students directly in touch with the thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world.

The best-selling companion text, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, is also updated and revised to reflect new developments in political thinking and movements. (Give Valuepack ISBN 0-321-18549-8 to your bookstore to order the text & reader package).

A logical organization, introductions to each selection, and explanatory notes make this reader accessible to all students.

Discusses the historical and political context of each selection, providing students with a multidimensional understanding of the content and its author.

Covers a major school of political thought in each of the ten Parts using a summary to familiarize the student.

Translates foreign words, identifies persons and events, and supplies historical context with explanatory notes throughout text, making the readings easier for students to understand.

Discusses radical Islam, helping students understand the rise of Al Qaeda, the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other developments in the Middle East.

Provides updated coverage of the animal rights movement—a heated political topic.

New articles on feminism and black liberation movement enhance students' multicultural understanding.

Introduction.

I. THE CONCEPT OF IDEOLOGY.

1. Ideology: The Career of a Concept, Terrell Carver.

II. THE DEMOCRATIC IDEAL.

2. Democracy and Despotism, Euripides.

3. Funeral Oration, Pericles.

4. Democratic Judgement and the “Middling” Constitution, Aristotle.

5. What's Wrong with Princely Rule?, Niccolò Machiavelli.

6. What Is a Republic?, John Adams.

7. Bill of Rights of the United States.

8. Democracy and Equality, Alexis de Tocqueville.

9. Democratic Participation and Political Education, John Stuart Mill.

10. Town Meetings and Workers' Control, Michael Walzer.

11. Democracy and the Power of Education, Danielle Allen.

III. LIBERALISM.

12. The State of Nature and the Basis of Obligation, Thomas Hobbes.

13. Toleration and Government, John Locke.

14. Government, Rights, and the Bonds Between Generations; Thomas Paine.

15. Declaration of Independence of the United States.

16. Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen.

17. Private Profit, Public Good; Adam Smith.

18. Freedom and Enlightenment, Immanuel Kant.

19. Liberty and Individuality, John Stuart Mill.

20. According to the Fitness of Things, William Graham Sumner.

21. Liberalism and Positive Freedom, T. H. Green.

22. Paternalism vs. Democracy, Donald Allen.

23. Libertarian Anarchism, Murray Rothbard.

24. The Limitations of Libertarianism, Thomas A. Spragens, Jr.

IV. CONSERVATISM.

25. Reverence and the “True Natural Aristocracy;” Edmund Burke Society.

26. Conservatism as Reaction, Joseph de Maistre.

27. The Poet as Conservative, William Wordsworth.

28. Revolt of the Masses, Jose Ortega y Gasset.

29. On Being Conservative, Michael Oakeshott.

30. The Woodpeckers and the Starlings, Jacquetta Hawkes.

31. Modern Liberalism and Cultural Decline, Robert Bork.

32. A Religious Conservative Vision for America, Ralph Reed.

V. SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM: MORE TO MARX.

33. Utopia, Thomas Moore.

34. Address to the Inhabitants of New Lanark, Robert Owen.

35. The Communist Manifesto, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.

36. Contribution to a Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx.

VI. SOCIALISM AND COMMUNISM AFTER MARX.

37. Evolutionary Socialism, Eduard Bernstein.

38. Revisionism, Imperialism, and Revolution; V. I. Lenin.

39. The Permanent Revolution, Leon Trotsky.

40. On the People's Democratic Dictatorship, Mao Zedong.

41. Anarcho-Communism vs. Marxism, Mikhail Bakunin.

42. Anarchism: What it Really Stands For, Emma Goldman.

43. Fabian Socialism, George Bernard Shaw.

44. Looking Backward, Edward Bellamy.

45. Socialism and Democracy, Carol C. Gould.

VII. FASCISM.

46. Civilization and Race, Joseph-Arthur de Gobineau.

47. The Doctrine of Fascism, Benito Mussolini.

48. The Political Theory of Fascism, Alfredo Rocco.

49. Nation and Race, Adolf Hitler.

VII. LIBERATION IDEOLOGIES AND THE POLITICAL IDENTITY.

50. Letter from Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr.

51. Black Consciousness and the Quest for a True Humanity, Steve Biko.

52. A Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollstonecraft.

53. The Equality of the Sexes, Sarah Grimké.

54. The Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions.

55. Oppression, Marilyn Frye.

56. Homosexuality: The Nature and Harm Arguments, John Corvino.

57. Spirituality, Equality, and Natural Law, Oren Lyons.

58. Liberation Theology, Gustavo Guterrez.

59. All Animals are Equal, Peter Singer.

IX. “GREEN” POLITICS: ECOLOGY AS IDEOLOGY.

60. The Land Ethic, Aldo Leopold.

61. Getting Along with Nature, Wendell Berry.

62. Putting the Earth First, Dave Foreman.

63. Thinking Green!, Petra Kelly.

X. THE FUTURE OF IDEOLOGY.

64. Secularism and the Civil Society, Bernard Lewis.

65. The Neglected Duty, Abd al-Salam Faraj.

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A compilation of original readings from a wide range of ideological visions - right, middle, and "unorthodox" - Ideals and Ideologies puts students directly in touch with the thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world.

This new edition of Ball & Dagger's bestselling reader includes a generous sampling of key thinkers across the various traditions, presented within the intellectual and political context in which the thinkers thought and wrote. This reader is organized to work seamlessly with Ball and Dagger's companion textbook, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, together providing rigorous, comprehensive coverage of political ideologies and modern political thought.

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