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| Guide to Features | |
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| Guided Tour | |
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| Publisher's Acknowledgements | |
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| Authors' Acknowledgements | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Theory as Abstraction | |
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| The Distinction between Facts and Values | |
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| The Problem with the Contestability Thesis | |
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| Structure of the Book | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Classical Ideologies | |
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| Origins and Development of the Term | |
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| Isms as Ideologies | |
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| Mannheim's Paradox: Are We Stuck? | |
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| Facts, Values and the State | |
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| References | |
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| Liberalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Prostitution Laws in Sweden | |
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| The Meaning of Liberalism | |
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| Liberalism as Toleration | |
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| The Reformation and Wars of Religion | |
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| Toleration | |
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| Contractarianism | |
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| Rights-based Liberalism | |
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| Locke | |
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| Kant | |
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| Utilitarianism | |
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| Conclusion: the Swedish Case Study | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Conservatism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Reform or Revolution? | |
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| Conservatism: an Elusive Ideology? | |
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| Basic Elements of Conservatism | |
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| David Hume | |
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| Edmund Burke | |
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| Michael Oakeshott | |
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| Leo Strauss and American Neo-conservatism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Socialism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Tanks in the Streets of Prague | |
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| The Problem of Variety | |
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| Defining Socialism | |
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| The Problem of Utopia | |
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| Science and the 'Utopian Socialists' | |
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| Introducing Marxism | |
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| The Authoritarian Consequences of 'Scientific Socialism' | |
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| The Inevitability Argument | |
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| The Concept of Class War and the Problem of Morality | |
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| The Dilemma of Democratic Socialism | |
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| Eduard Bernstein and the German Socialists | |
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| Bernstein, Revisionism and the British Tradition | |
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| Bernstein's Argument | |
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| The British Labour Party and the Fabians | |
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| The Labour Party, Constitutionalism and the Trade Unions | |
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| Blair's Socialism | |
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| International Social Democrats | |
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| Can Marxism be Rescued? | |
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| The Notion of Revolution | |
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| The Inevitability Problem and the Liberal Tradition | |
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| The Question of Class and Agency | |
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| Socialism and Inevitability | |
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| The Problem of Utopianism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Anarchism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Death in Genoa | |
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| The Relationship with Socialism | |
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| Philosophical Anarchists | |
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| Free Market Anarchists | |
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| Anti-capitalist Anarchists: Proudhon, Bakunin and Kropotkin | |
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| The Argument So Far ... | |
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| Republican Spain and the Anarchist Experience | |
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| The Problem of Violence | |
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| Anarchism and the New Social Movements | |
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| The Problem of Organisation and Relationships | |
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| The Problem of Hierarchy | |
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| The Question of Self-determination and Constraint | |
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| Anarchism and the Distinction between State and Government | |
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| Summary | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Mountains, Muesli, Cuckoo Clocks and Yodellers | |
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| Nations and Nationalism | |
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| Definitions | |
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| Modernism versus Perennialism | |
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| Modernist Theories | |
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| Perennialist Theories | |
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| Nationalism: the Ethical Debate | |
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| Implications of the Modernist-Perennialist Debate | |
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| State versus Nation | |
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| Civic Nationalism and Ethnic Nationalism | |
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| Nationalism and Exclusivity | |
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| Liberalism and Nationalism: Mill and Herder | |
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| Liberalism versus Nationalism | |
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| John Stuart Mill | |
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| Johann Gottfried von Herder | |
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| Socialism and Nationalism: Marx and Engels | |
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| Conclusion: Banal Nationalism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Fascism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: 'Never Again': Contemporary Forms of Fascism | |
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| Defining Fascism | |
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| Fascism and Communism | |
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| Fascism and Religion | |
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| Fascism and Liberalism | |
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| Fascism and Conservatism | |
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| Fascism in Italy | |
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| Nationalism and War | |
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| Corporativism, Violence and the State | |
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| Intellectual Roots | |
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| Fascism in Germany | |
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| A Brief History | |
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| Anti-capitalism | |
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| Statism, Women and Colonialism | |
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| Fascism and Capitalism | |
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| Fascism, Liberalism and the Enlightenment | |
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| The State of Nature, Equality and the Individual | |
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| Nationalism | |
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| Rationality | |
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| Fascism, Stalinism and the State | |
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| Stalinism | |
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| Fascism Today | |
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| The Unrepentant Apologists | |
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| The Holocaust Deniers | |
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| The Critical Fascists | |
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| Eurofascism | |
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| Nationalist Salvation | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| New Ideologies | |
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| Social and Economic Change | |
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| Critique of Classical Ideologies | |
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| References | |
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| Feminism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Women's Work? | |
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| Liberal Feminism | |
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| Mary Wollstonecraft | |
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| John Stuart Mill | |
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| Liberal Feminism in Britain and the United States | |
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| Problems with Liberal Feminism | |
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| Radical Feminist Critique | |
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| Socialist Feminist Critique | |
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| Other Critiques | |
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| Socialist Feminism | |
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| Engels's Contribution | |
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| Bebel and Later Socialists | |
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| Women in the Communist Party States | |
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| The Domestic Labour Debate | |
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| Problems with Socialist Feminism | |
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| Liberal Feminist Critique | |
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| Radical Feminist Critique | |
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| Black Feminists and the Philosophical Feminist Critique | |
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| Radical Feminism | |
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| Problems with Radical Feminism | |
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| Liberal Feminist Critique | |
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| Socialist Feminist Critique | |
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| Black Feminists and the Philosophical Feminist Critique | |
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| Black Feminism | |
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| Problems with Black Feminism | |
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| Liberal, Socialist and Radical Feminist Critiques | |
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| The Critique of Philosophical Feminisms | |
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| Philosophical Feminisms | |
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| Feminist Empiricism | |
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| Standpoint Feminism | |
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| Postmodern Feminism | |
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| Problems with the Philosophical Feminisms | |
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| Liberal Feminist Critique | |
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| Socialist, Radical and Black Feminist Critiques | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Multiculturalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Religious Dress Ban: Equality or Oppression? | |
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| What is Multiculturalism? | |
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| Culture, Race, Ethnicity and Religion | |
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| Culture | |
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| Race and Ethnicity | |
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| Religion | |
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| Multiculturalism, Liberalism and Modernity | |
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| Models of Multiculturalism | |
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| Jeremy Waldron: Hybridity | |
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| Will Kymlicka: Right to Cultural Membership | |
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| James Tully: Constitutional Diversity | |
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| John Rawls: Overlapping Consensus | |
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| Edward Said: Critique of Orientalism | |
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| Assessment: Identity, Reason and Freedom | |
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| Multiculturalism: the New Wars of Religion? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Ecologism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: Nuclear Power? Yes Please! | |
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| Ecologism or Environmentalism? | |
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| Environmental Crisis and Green Politics | |
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| Environmental Crisis | |
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| Green Politics | |
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| Aldo Leopold and the 'Land Ethic' | |
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| Arne Naess and 'Deep Ecology' | |
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| Garrett Hardin and the Ethics of the Lifeboat | |
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| Summary and Criticisms of Ecologism | |
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| Summary of Ecologism | |
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| Criticisms of Ecologism | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Fundamentalism | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chapter Map | |
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| Test Case: The Diversity of Fundamentalisms | |
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| Label or Concept? | |
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| Fundamentalism and Religion | |
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| Fundamentals and Fundamentalism | |
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| Modernity and Tradition | |
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| Fundamentalism, Democracy and Violence | |
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| What is Islamic Fundamentalism? | |
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| US Fundamentalism and the Religious Right | |
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| Jewish Fundamentalism and the Israeli State | |
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| 'The Clash of Civilisations': a Fundamentalist Thesis? | |
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| Summary | |
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| Questions | |
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| References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Weblinks | |
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| Conclusion: Academic Political Theory and Politics | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |