Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch is perhaps best known for his subtle and imaginative investigation of utopias and utopianism, but his work also provides a comprehensive and insightful analysis of western culture, politics and society. Yet, because he has not been one of easiest of writers to read his full contribution has not been widely acknowledged. Block developed a complex conceptual framework, and presented this in a prose style which many have found to verge on the impenetrable. In this critical and accessible introduction to one of the most fascinating thinkers of the twentieth century, Vincent Geoghegan unravels much of the mystery of the man and his ideas.

Biographies & Memoirs

Geoghegan, Vincent

Leaders & Notable People

Routledge

In this much needed critical introduction, Geoghegan critically appraises Bloch's ideas and presents them in a clear and accessible manner.

This is a completely revised and updated version of a much-used, concise and readable introductory textbook, first published in 1984. This edition covers all the major ideologies, adding Feminism and Ecologism to the original line-up. An introductory chapter charts the recent resurgence of the ideological controversy and assesses the significance of the collapse of Soviet bloc communism and of `end of ideology' theses. Each subsequent chapter explores the origins and historical background of each ideology, and looks at it in its British and international contexts. Political Ideologies makes the character of each ideology and the interrelationships clear, avoiding complexity and jargon. The authors have worked closely together to produce a coherent and consistently well-written text.

Political Ideologies: An Introduction

Politics & Social Sciences

Eccleshall, Robert

Politics & Government

This informative and widely-used text is now available in a third edition. Building on the success of previous editions, it continues to provide a clear and accessible introduction to the complexities of political ideologies. The latest edition of Political Ideologies: introduces and considers the future of all the most widely studied ideologies: liberalism; conservatism; socialism; democracy; nationalism; fascism; ecologism and feminism sets each ideology clearly within its historical and political context includes a new final chapter that examines the impact of recent theoretical developments of ideologies and charts the challenges that they face in the twenty-first century has been fully revised and up-dated and provides an annotated guide for further reading.

Political Ideologies, Third Edition: An Introduction

Now in its fourth edition, Political Ideologies: An Introduction continues to be the best introductory textbook for students of political ideologies. Completely revised and updated throughout, this edition features: <ul>
<li>A comprehensive introduction to all of the most important ideologies</li> <li>Brand new chapters on multiculturalism, anarchism, and the growing influence of religion on politics</li> <li>More contemporary examples of twenty-first-century iterations of liberalism, socialism, conservatism, fascism, green political theory, nationalism, and feminism</li> <li>Enhanced discussion of the end of ideology debates and emerging theories of ideological formation 
</li> <li>Six new contributors.</li>
</ul>
Accessible and packed with both historical and contemporary examples, this is the most useful textbooks for scholars and students of political ideologies. The contributors to this volume have all taught or carried out research at the School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy of Queen’s University, Belfast, or have close research connections with the School.

Wilford, Richard

MacKenzie, Ian

Jay, Richard

Keeny, Michael

In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary contested, in such a time? As this study shows, the desire to integrate religion into a ‘progressive’ politics is not new. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the Common Wealth movement, this work seeks to bring together for the first time the religious and political commitments of four of the leading thinkers in the movement, bringing to light the significance of the relationships between them. This study examines at four interwar British radicals – the philosopher John Macmurray, the novelist and sexual theorist Kenneth Ingram, the Science Fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, and the Liberal M.P. Richard Acland – and examines their attempts to develop a socialism that whilst defending the achievements of the secular age was also sensitive to the virtues of religious traditions. Thus it considers Macmurray’s attempt to draw on the seemingly antagonistic traditions of Marxism and Christianity, Ingram’s long struggle to develop a Christian response to ‘deviant’ sexual behaviour, Stapledon’s exploration of a non-Christian religious spirit, and Acland’s journey from liberal atheist to Christian socialist. It then follows the activities of all four in the radical political movement founded by Acland in the midst of the Second World War, Common Wealth, particularly focusing on the positions they took in the serious battles over the function of religion that convulsed the leadership of this body. This work will be of great interest to scholars of political theory, religious studies, social and political thought.

Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Sociology

In the past decade philosophers and political theorists have increasingly pondered the role of religion in a modern secular society, and of the possible value of religion as a resource for contemporary thinking. The global resurgence of a new religious politics – graphically symbolised by 9/11 - has added a new urgency to this project; how is religion to be integrated, and if necessary contested, in such a time? As this study shows, the desire to integrate religion into a ‘progressive’ politics is not new. Providing a comprehensive analysis of the Common Wealth movement, this work seeks to bring together for the first time the religious and political commitments of four of the leading thinkers in the movement, bringing to light the significance of the relationships between them.   This study examines at four interwar British radicals – the philosopher John Macmurray, the novelist and sexual theorist Kenneth Ingram, the Science Fiction writer Olaf Stapledon, and the Liberal M.P. Richard Acland – and examines their attempts to develop a socialism that whilst defending the achievements of the secular age was also sensitive to the virtues of religious traditions. Thus it considers Macmurray’s attempt to draw on the seemingly antagonistic traditions of Marxism and Christianity, Ingram’s long struggle to develop a Christian response to ‘deviant’ sexual behaviour, Stapledon’s exploration of a non-Christian religious spirit, and Acland’s journey from liberal atheist to Christian socialist. It then follows the activities of all four in the radical political movement founded by Acland in the midst of the Second World War, Common Wealth, particularly focusing on the positions they took in the serious battles over the function of religion that convulsed the leadership of this body. This work will be of great interest to scholars of political theory, religious studies, social and political thought.

Socialism and Religion (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Utopianism and Marxism

Examining the works of Marx, Engels and later generations of Marxists Geoghegan asks what should replace utopianism in Marxism? What emerges is a compelling, elegantly written argument that will enlighten Marxists and non-Marxists alike.

Routledge& Kegan Paul

Examining the works of Marx, Engels and later generations of Marxists Geoghegan asks what should replace utopianism in Marxism? What emerges is a compelling, elegantly written argument that will enlighten Marxists and non-Marxists alike.

Reason and Eros: The Social Theory of Herbert Marcuse

Social Sciences

Pluto Pr

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Ernst Bloch

Ernst Bloch

Political Ideologies: An Introduction

Political Ideologies, Third Edition: An Introduction

Political Ideologies: An Introduction

Socialism and Religion: Roads to Common Wealth (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Socialism and Religion (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Utopianism and Marxism

Utopianism and Marxism

Reason and Eros: The Social Theory of Herbert Marcuse