Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 280
Trim: 6¾ x 9½
978-1-4422-1201-5 • Hardback • August 2011 • $75.00 • (£58.00)
978-1-4422-1203-9 • eBook • September 2011 • $71.00 • (£55.00)
Sanford Lakoff is Dickeson Professor Emeritus of political science at the University of California, San Diego.
Preface
Chapter 1: Christianity and Equality
Chapter 2: Civic Humanism
Chapter 3: Liberalism
Chapter 4: Conservatism
Chapter 5: Socialism
Chapter 6: Nationalism
Chapter 7: Fascism
Chapter 8: Realism in Foreign Policy
Chapter 9: Islamism
Chapter 10: Democracy
Epilogue
With his usual clarity and cogency, Sanford Lakoff maps the contours of ten concepts that have radically and irrevocably reshaped the political landscape of the world we inhabit today. For every serious student of politics, his book is required reading.
— Terence Ball, Arizona State University
Sanford Lakoff presents all of the major concepts and movements of political thought and discourse. Many pages in this magisterial work are very wise, lively, and positively inspire critical thinking about the big questions in politics.
— Kenneth L. Deutsch, State University of New York at Geneseo
Sanford Lakoff’s aptly titled Ten Political Ideas that Have Shaped the Modern World is both a timely exploration of the genesis and trajectory of some of the most salient ideas in Western political thought and history, and a capstone that unifies and expands research spanning Lakoff’s long and fruitful career. As with any large-scale study of political ideas and their practical fortunes, Lakoff’s book is significantly shaped by the initial choice of ideas to be included and explored….Lakoff’s approach to the study of political ideas is salutary both in the decisiveness of his exposition and in his recognition that his very subject matter comprises ideas whose meaning, origin, and significance are not only contestable, but regularly contested….The book is arguably at its best in the examination of American political culture through the confluence of several ideas that continue to animate and shape it.
— The Review of Politics