1st Edition

Taking Ideology Seriously 21st Century Reconfigurations

Edited By Gayil Talshir, Mathew Humphrey Copyright 2006
176 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of the ‘end of ideology’ thesis, not as a theoretical stance but as a reaction to what appears to have been the decline of major ideological families, such as socialism, in a changing world order. Globalization, as well as internal national fragmentation of belief systems, have made it difficult to identify ideology in its conventional formats.... Read more

Introduction: How Should We Study Ideologies in the 21st Century?  1. Restructuring the Public Sphere: Contemporary Ideologies between Theory and Politics 2. Visions of Popular Sovereignty: Mapping the Contested Terrain of Contemporary Western Populisms   3. Abasso l’antagonismo? Poststructuralist Reflections on Ideologies in Modern Italy  4. Ideological Polarization and Legislative Performance in Presidential Systems  5. Radical and Plural Democracy: In Defence of Right/Left and Public Reason  6. Al-Qaeda: Ideology and Action Jeff Haynes  7. The End of Ideology and the End of an Ideology? Ecology, Liberalism, and Ideological Analysis 8. A Globalist Ideology of Post-Marxism? Hardt and Negri's Empire  9. Conclusions: Confronting the Chimera of a 'Post-Ideological' Age

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Gayil Talshir, Mathew Humphrey, Michael Freeden