Lost in Ideology: Interpreting Modern Political Life

Jason Blakely

doi:10.1017/9781788216647

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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Introduction: in search of ideology
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Part I - Strange roots: early America
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1 - Liberal by nature: varieties of classical liberalism
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2 - Other foundings: civic republicanism and white supremacy
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Part II - Polarizations: the left and the right
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3 - Dueling liberalisms: progressives versus right libertarians
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4 - In the name of the past: conservatism’s multiple traditions
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5 - There is no “fascist minimum”: fascist bundles and hybridizations
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6 - Is socialism still taboo? From Marxism to Bernie Sanders
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Part III - Liquifying ideology: beyond left and right
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7 - Hiding in plain sight: nationalism and multiculturalism
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8 - There are many feminisms: the advent of sexual politics
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9 - The meaning of the Earth: the challenges of ecological politics
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Conclusion: the age of ideologies
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Dedication
pp v-vi

Contents
pp vii-viii

Miscellaneous Frontmatter
pp ix-x

Introduction: in search of ideology
pp 1-10

Part I - Strange roots: early America
pp 11-12

1 - Liberal by nature: varieties of classical liberalism
pp 13-30

2 - Other foundings: civic republicanism and white supremacy
pp 31-44

Part II - Polarizations: the left and the right
pp 45-46

3 - Dueling liberalisms: progressives versus right libertarians
pp 47-62

4 - In the name of the past: conservatism’s multiple traditions
pp 63-80

5 - There is no “fascist minimum”: fascist bundles and hybridizations
pp 81-96

6 - Is socialism still taboo? From Marxism to Bernie Sanders
pp 97-112

Part III - Liquifying ideology: beyond left and right
pp 113-114

7 - Hiding in plain sight: nationalism and multiculturalism
pp 115-132

8 - There are many feminisms: the advent of sexual politics
pp 133-146

9 - The meaning of the Earth: the challenges of ecological politics
pp 147-162

Conclusion: the age of ideologies
pp 163-174

Notes
pp 175-188

Index
pp 189-196

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