Overview

"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!"""

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Author:   Jason Blakely
Publisher:   Agenda Publishing
Imprint:   Agenda Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.60cm
ISBN:  

9781788216623

ISBN 10:   1788216628
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   26 March 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Introduction: in search of ideology Part I: Strange roots: early American ideology 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. Evolving liberalism: progressives versus neoliberals 4. In the name of the past: conservatives and neoconservatives 5. There is no “fascist minimum”: fascistic bundles and hybridizations 6. Is socialism still taboo? From Marxism to Bernie Sanders Part III: Ideological scrambling: beyond the left and the 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

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"Citizens are too easily ""lost in ideology"". In this terrific book, Jason Blakely clarifies the shifting pathways and maps that shape both ideologies and possibilities for moving beyond them. -- Craig Calhoun, University Professor of Social Sciences, Arizona State University and co-author of Degenerations of Democracy This is a warm, humanist and vital book for our moment which does a tremendous job mapping the ideological terrain of the past 200 years. It manages to do so with both sophistication and a democratic sensibility. One is reminded of the quote attributed to Terence: ""Nothing human is foreign to me"". How many books can you point to where Michael Oakeshott, Wendy Brown, Marx and Mill, all are taken seriously and put in dialogue with one another? -- Matt McManus, author of The Political Right and Equality and co-host of the Academic Edgelords podcast"

Author Information

Jason Blakely is Associate Professor of Political Science at Seaver College, Pepperdine University, Malibu. He is the author of We Built Reality: How Social Science Infiltrated Culture, Politics and Power (2020) and Interpretive Social Science (2018).

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