The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought

Terence Ball, Richard Bellamy

Cambridge University Press, Aug 14, 2003 - History - 754 pages

This major work of academic reference provides a comprehensive overview of the development of political thought from the late nineteenth to the end of the twentieth century. Written by a distinguished team of international contributors, this Cambridge History covers the rise of the welfare state and subsequent reactions to it, the fascist and communist critiques of and attempted alternatives to liberal democracy, the novel forms of political organization occasioned by the rise of the mass electorate and new social movements, the various intellectual traditions from positivism to post-modernism that have shaped the study of politics, the interaction between western and non-western traditions of political thought, and the challenge possed to the state by globalization. Every major theme in twentieth-century political thought is covered in a series of chapters at once scholarly and accessible, of interest and relevance to students and scholars of politics at all levels from beginning undergraduate upwards.

Contents

• The coming of the welfare state Michael Freeden: 1
• The changing fortunes of liberal democracy: 7
• socialisms and social: 10
• pathologies of modernity from: 16
• Pacifism and Pacificism Martin Ceadel: 22
• Keynes and his critics: 45
• The advent of the masses and the making of the modern: 70
• Nationalism and imperialism: 104
• Fascism and racism: 123
• Conservatism: 151
• Christian democracy: 165
• Critics of totalitarianism: 181
• The end of the welfare state?: 202
• socialism and social democracy: 219
• an ideology in power: 239
• Asian communism: 267
• Western Marxism: 282
• French Marxism existentialism to structuralism: 299
• Science modernism and politics: 321
• pathologies of modernity from Nietzsche: 343
• Weber Durkheim and the sociology of the modern state: 368
• Freud and his followers: 392
• Modernism in art literature and political theory: 412
• The new science of politics: 431
• contemporary analytical: 446
• Pacifism and pacificism: 473
• Feminisms: 493
• Identity politics: 517
• Green political theory: 534
• NonWestern political thought: 553
• Islamic political thought: 579
• The grand dichotomy of the twentieth century: 602
• Biographies: 627
• Bibliography: 677
• Subject index: 735
• Name index: 747

About the author

Terence Ball is Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He taught for many years at the University of Minnesota, and has held visiting professorships at the Universities of Oxford and California, San Diego. Professor Ball has edited the political writings of James Mill and The Federalist for the Cambridge Texts series, co-edited (with Joyce Appleby) Thomas Jefferson for the same series, and his own books include Transforming Political Discourse, Reappraising Political Theory and Rousseau's Ghost: A Novel, in addition to numerous co-edited works.

Richard Bellamy is Professor of Political Science at University College London.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Political Thought; Cambridge histories online; Volume 4 of The Cambridge History of Political Thought
• Editors: Terence Ball, Richard Bellamy
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0521563542, 9780521563543
• Length: 754 pages
• Subjects: History / Modern / 20th Century; History / Social History; History / World; Philosophy / Political; Political Science / History & Theory; Political Science / Political Ideologies / General; Social Science / General