Presenting key selections from an array of original sources and a wide range of ideological visions, Ideals and Ideologies puts students directly in touch with the thinkers and the ideas that have shaped our world. The new edition of this celebrated Reader includes a generous sampling of key thinkers across the various traditions, presented within theintellectual and political context in which the thinkers thought and wrote. It is organized to work seamlessly with its companion textbook, Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal, providing rigorous, comprehensive coverage of political ideologies and modern political thought.
New to this 12th Edition:
· Ayn Rand, “Collectivized Ethics”
· Tanner Greer, “Learning the Wrong Lessons from Reform Conservatism”
· Herbert Marcuse, “One-Dimensional Man”
· Richard B. Spencer, “Spencer Speaks”
· Les Payne, “The Night I Stopped Being a Negro”
· Emma Goldman on Feminism
· Martha Nussbaum, "What Does It Mean to be Human? Don't Ask"
· Ta-Nehisi Coates, “The Case for Reparations”
· Latinx liberation ideology
· Asian American liberation ideology
Author Biography:
Terence Ball received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley and is now Emeritus Professor of Political Science and Philosophy at Arizona State University. He taught previously at the University of Minnesota and has held visiting professorships at Oxford University, Cambridge University, and the University of California, San Diego. He is author of over one hundred scholarly articles, essays, and monographs. His books include Transforming Political Discourse (Blackwell, 1988); Reappraising Political Theory (Oxford University Press, 1995); and a mystery novel, Rousseau’s Ghost (SUNY Press, 1998). He has also edited The Federalist (Cambridge University Press, 2003); James Madison (Ashgate, 2008); and Abraham Lincoln: Political Writings and Speeches (Cambridge University Press, 2013); and co-edited The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2003) and six other volumes.
Richard Dagger earned his Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and has taught at Arizona State University and Rhodes College, and the University of Richmond, where he is currently the E. Claiborne Robins Distinguished Chair in the Liberal Arts. He is the author of many publications in political and legal philosophy, including Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism (Oxford University Press, 1997); and Playing Fair: Political Obligation and the Problem of Punishment (Oxford University Press, 2018).
Daniel I. O’Neill received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida. He is the author of The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (Penn State University Press, 2007); co-editor of Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman (Penn State University Press, 2008); and author, most recently, of Edmund Burke and the Conservative Logic of Empire (University of California Press, 2016). From 2017-2023, he was one of two editors of the journal Perspectives on Politics.
Jennet Kirkpatrick earned her Ph.D. from Rutgers University and has taught at the University of Michigan and Arizona State University, where she is currently Associate Professor of Political Science. She is an award-winning teacher, and the author of Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics (Princeton University Press, 2008) and The Virtues of Exit: On Resistance and Quitting Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 2017).
