Nancy Love’s concise yet complete volume aims to inform students of their choices among political values. By exploring the assumptions of various ideologies and comparing their positions, students begin to understand political alternatives to be able to choose among them—in essence, they learn to think democratically. Offering historical and analytic context for the selections in her companion reader, Dogmas and Dreams, Love challenges students to consider the various ways ideological frameworks shape political actions.

Reframing her approach in this second edition, Love examines how traditional left/right ideologies—liberalism and conservatism, socialism and fascism—are shifting to adapt to new political realities in an ever turbulent, post-9/11 world. She also discusses why alternative ideologies—feminism, environmentalism, fundamentalism, and globalization—may better convey our global political future. While pushing the boundaries of the left/right political spectrum, she looks at how grassroots social movements offer alternative ways to view ideological differences, from cluster-concepts to micro-discourses, and even a planetary galaxy.

Expanded coverage includes:

• a new chapter on nationalism and globalization, which examines the work of Samuel Huntington, Kenichi Ohmae, Benjamin Barber, and many more, to explore fundamentalism in Islamic politics
• increased coverage of global environmental politics, including Shiva’s Stolen Harvest and Kelly’s Thinking Green, examining the relationships between developed and developing countries
• fresh material on socialist politics post-1989 and the rise of neo-fascist movements in the United States and Europe, including analysis of Hayden and Flacks’ “The Port Huron Statement at 40” and Bob Moser’s “The Age of Rage”
• an updated feminism chapter that considers the impact of third-wave, post-colonial, and so-called “power” feminists and incorporates new analysis of Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and Mohanty’s Under Western Eyes Revisited

A thinking person’s package…
Nancy Love wrote Understanding Dogmas and Dreams with her edited collection in mind—the two work together as a seamless package and give students great value for their money. Order the two books shrink-wrapped at significant savings.

Please specify ISBN 0-87289-287-5. For the full table of contents of Love’s reader, Dogmas and Dreams, click here.

Preface

1. The End of Ideology—Again?
Defining Ideology: A Brief History
Why to Study Ideology
Political Ideology and Political Theory
How to Study Ideology
The Changing Contours of Ideology

2. Liberalism
Democracy, Liberalism, and Capitalism
Liberal Individualism and Natural Rights
An Economic Interlude: The Invisible Hand
Utilitarianism and Equality
Welfare Liberalism and Social Rights
Contemporary Challenges

3. Conservatism
Conservative Ideology?
The Conservative Canon
Conservatism in American Politics
The Neo-Conservatives and Public Policy
The New/est Right

4. Socialism
Reassessing Marxism
The Origins of Socialism
Class, Capitalism, and Consciousness
Democratic Socialism, Revolutionary
Communism, and A Third Way
Is Socialism Dead?

5. Anarchism
What Is Anarchism?
Individualist Anarchism: Godwin, Stirner, and Thoreau
Social Anarchism: Bakunin and Kropotkin
Anarchist Organizations in Practice
The Future of Anarchism

6. Fascism
Nationalism, Patriotism and Superpatriotism
The Power of Symbolic Politics
Masses, Leaders, and the State
Corporatism: Reconciling Class and Nation
The Politics of Hate in Western
Democracies Today

7. Feminism
“Feminism”: Past, Present, and Post
The Sex-Gender System
Traditional Feminisms: Liberal and Marxist
From Radical to Postmodern Feminism
Black Feminism and Postcolonial Feminism
Third-Wave and Two-Thirds World: Coalitions and Communities

8. Environmentalism and Ecology
Nature as Politics
Shades of Green: A Brief History
Radical Ecology, Eco-Feminism, and Eco-Ethics
Ecology and Ideology

9. Nationalism and Globalization
Nations, Communities, and Identities
From Globalization to Globalism (and back again)
The “New” Fundamentalisms
Cosmopolitan Democracy and the Future of Ideology

Glossary
Bibliography
Index

"In a world populated by multiple ideologies and world views, we need help in interpreting these political agendas. Nancy Love's book has for some time served as an indispensable guidepost in this field. The second edition is even more valuable because of the new chapters devoted to globalization, ecology, and religious fundamentalism. In the decades ahead, may the ‘dreams’ for a better future steadily vanquish the ‘dogmas’ of the past."

"Love’s Understanding Dogmas and Dreams has been the most successful introductory text in American Political Thought I have used in 30 years. My students have benefited greatly from reading and rereading it, always discovering new and valuable insights and applications. Many found it initially dense but always approachable. As their sophistication with language and conceptual facility developed, their appreciation for her use of language and connectivity of ideas increased significantly. I found it to be extremely useful!"

"I admire Nancy Love's work immensely. I find her to be an articulate, lucid writer. Her selection of 'isms' is well-balanced and provides a good 'snapshot' of the ideological map."

"Understanding Dogmas and Dreams is a great companion to the Dogmas and Dreams reader and I wouldn’t teach Political Ideologies without it. Nancy Love does a great job of contextualizing the debates surrounding each ideology. She deftly leads students through theoretical linkages within and across ideologies and provides the historical background crucial for a thorough and nuanced understanding of each argument. I highly recommend both books."

Nancy S. Love is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Pennsylvania State University, where she received the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching in 1991. She has also taught at Swarthmore College and Cornell University. Professor Love received her AB degree from Kenyon College and her PhD from Cornell University. She is the author of Marx, Nietzsche, and Modernity, published by Columbia University Press in 1986 (reissued 1996), and editor of Dogmas and Dreams: A Reader in Modern Political Ideologies, 3rd edition (CQ Press, 2006), to which this volume is a companion text. Her work appears in anthologies on critical theory and in the following journals: differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy; New German Critique; Polity; Studies in Soviet Thought; Theory and Event; Theory, Culture, and Society; and Women and Politics. Professor Love’s next book entitled, Musical Democracy, is in production with the SUNY Press.

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