商品簡介
What are the rights and duties of citizens? Who should rule? What is justice? How far should the authority of government extend? These are among the perennial questions of political theory. This innovative textbook facilitates a comprehensive and systematic understanding of these and other questions by describing the alternative answers provided by the major ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries, and by a wide variety of contemporary radical and extremist perspectives. The book demonstrates that adherents to these various outlooks can come to greater agreement about these questions than is often recognized. Ideal as text for first courses in both political theory and political ideologies, students of the book gain both a deep appreciation of the diversity of political thought and of the ideas that are central to the governance of pluralist democracies.
作者簡介
Paul Schumaker is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas, where he has taught courses in political theory and community politics since 1972. Dr. Schumaker has authored several books on political theory, including Critical Pluralism, Democratic Performance, and Community Power (1991).
名人推薦
"The strengths of this work are many. Schumaker's schematic analysis of political ideas is thorough but never pedantic, and he illustrates his analysis with frequent and compelling examples. The result is a thoughtfully written text which will invite students into an interconnected dialogue about their most basic political beliefs. Students whose first exposure to political ideologies and philosophies comes through Schumaker's book will appreciate better not only their own opinions, but will have a better grasp of the advantages and limitations of a pluralistic system like our own, which allows other people's opinions to flourish as well."
Russell Arben Fox, Friends University
目次
Preface.
1. Constructing Our Public Philosophies.
Part I: Participants in our Political Conversations.
2. Voices from the Major Ideologies of the Nineteenth Century.
3. Prominent Totalitarian and Pluralist Voices of the Twentieth Century.
4. Radical and Extremist Voices in Contemporary Politics.
Part II: Philosophical Assumptions: Their Importance as Foundations for Political Principles.
5. Questions of Ontology.
6. Questions of Human Nature.
7. Questions of Society.
8. Questions of Epistemology.
Part III: The Great Issues of Politics: Consensual and Contested Principles.
9. Questions of Community.
10. Questions of Citizenship.
11. Questions of Structure.
12. Questions of Rulers.
13. Questions of Authority.
14. Questions of Justice.
15. Questions of Change.
Conclusions.
Notes.
References.
Index
