Ideologies play a crucial role in the way we understand and shape the political world. However, no one has been able to explain the nature of ideologies themselves. In this important new book, Freeden offers a ground-breaking approach to the subject. Drawing on the political experience of Britain, France, Germany, and the USA over the last two hundred years, the author provides an in-depth examination of all the key political ideologies: liberalism, conservatism, socialism, feminism, and green political thought.
PART 1. Theorizing About Ideological Morphology 1. Staking Out: The Distinctiveness of Analysing Ideologies 2. Assembling: From Concepts to Ideologies 3. Applying: The Concepts of Ideological Meaning PART II. Liberalism: The Dominant Ideology 4. The `Grand Projects' of Liberalism 5. New Liberal Successions: The Modernization of an Ideology 6. The Challenge of Philosophical Liberalism: Contextualizing the Contemporary American Variant 7. Mistaken Identities and Other Anomalies: The Liberal Pretenders PART III. The Adaptability of Conservatism 8. Theorizing about Conservative Ideology 9. The Chimera of Conservative Dualism 10. Forward to the Past - The Conservative Revival PART IV. Socialism: The Containment of Transcendence 11. The Congruence of Socialist Diversity 12. Socialism, Liberty, and Choice PART V. Transformation and Dilution: The Assault on Ideological Convention 13. Feminism: The Recasting of Political Language 14. Green Ideology: Retreat and Regrouping
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