This Eleventh Edition continues the text's tradition of successfully introducing readers to current and emerging political ideologies. Sargent offers a comparative analysis of nationalism, democracy, Marxism, and Islam, as well as an effective introduction to the lesser known ideologies surrounding environmentalism, feminism, and liberation theology. The result is a complete examination of how political ideologies affect the way people think and governments act.

Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis

Education & Teaching

Sargent, Lyman Tower

Schools & Teaching

Wadsworth Publishing

Since its initial publication 35 years ago, CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS has been the leading text in the field. This text successfully introduces readers to current and emerging political ideologies--offering a comparative analysis of nationalism, democracy, Marxism, and Islam, as well as an effective introduction to the lesser-known ideologies surrounding environmentalism, feminism, and liberation theology. The goal is to help readers draw their own conclusions about each ideology. To this end, the author makes every effort to present a balanced presentation of the ideologies covered in the text, and to objectively discuss the way that ideology functions today.

There are many debates about what constitutes a utopia. Are utopias benign or dangerous? Is the idea of utopianism essential to Christianity or heretical? What is the relationship between utopia and ideology? In this Very Short Introduction, Lyman Sargent, one of the leading scholars in the field of utopian studies, explores these issues and examines utopianism and its history, discussing the role of utopianism in literature and in the development of colonies and in immigration. The idea of utopia has become commonplace in social and political thought, both negatively and positively. Sargent notes that some thinkers see a trajectory from utopia to totalitarianism, with violence an inevitable part of the mix. Others see utopia directly connected to freedom and as a necessary element in the fight against totalitarianism. In Christianity, utopia is labeled as both heretical and as a fundamental part of Christian belief, and such debates are also central to such fields as architecture, town and city planning, and sociology among many others. Sargent addresses all these issues in this clear, compact introduction.

Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Oxford University Press

Explore the full gamut of political ideologies--from democracy to Marxism to political Islam--with CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Looking objectively at how ideology functions today, you absorb the classics through comparative analysis and delve into the less familiar, yet equally fascinating ideologies of anarchism, fascism, and National Socialism through detailed discussion. You even address some of the most thought-provoking, emerging topics of our day, such as feminism, liberation theology, environmentalism, and terrorism.

Contemporary political ideologies: A comparative analysis (The Dorsey series in political science)

Politics & Government

Dorsey Press,U.S.

Dorsey Press

Explore the full gamut of political ideologies--from democracy to Marxism to political Islam--with CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. Looking objectively at how ideology functions today, you absorb the classics through comparative analysis and delve into the less familiar, yet equally fascinating ideologies of anarchism, fascism, and National Socialism through detailed discussion. You even address some of the most thought-provoking, emerging topics of our day, such as feminism, liberation theology, environmentalism, and terrorism.

Thomson/Brooks/Cole

Explore current and emerging political ideologies--offering a comparative analysis of nationalism, the varieties of democracy, Marxism, and political Islam, as well as an effective introduction to the lesser-known ideologies surrounding anarchism, fascism and national socialism, environmentalism, feminism, and liberation theology with CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES: A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS. You'll find a balanced presentation of the ideologies covered in the text, and to objectively discuss the way that ideology functions today. Includes a discussion of terrorism.

Cengage Learning'

Living in Utopia: New Zealand’s Intentional Communities

Utopia is, literally, the good place that is no place. Utopias reveal people's dreams and desires and they may gesture towards different and better ways of being. But they are rarely considered as physical, observable phenomena. In this book Sargisson and Sargent, both established writers on utopian theory, turn their attention to real-life utopian communities. The book is based on their fieldwork and extensive archival research in New Zealand, a country with a special place in the history of utopianism. A land of opportunity for settlers with dreams of a better life, New Zealand has, per capita, more intentional communities - groups of people who have chosen to live and sometimes work together for a common purpose - than any country in the world. Sargisson and Sargent draw on the experiences of more than fifty such communities, to offer the first academic survey of this form of living utopian experiment. In telling the story of the New Zealand experience, Living in Utopia provides both transferable lessons in community, cooperation and social change and a unique insight into the utopianism at the heart of politics, society, and everyday life.

Sargisson, Lucy

Social Sciences

Routledge

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Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis

Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis

Utopianism: A Very Short Introduction

Contemporary political ideologies: A comparative analysis (The Dorsey series in political science)

Contemporary political ideologies: A comparative analysis (The Dorsey series in political science)

Contemporary political ideologies: A comparative analysis (The Dorsey series in political science)

Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis

Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis

Contemporary Political Ideologies: A Comparative Analysis

Living in Utopia: New Zealand’s Intentional Communities