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Michael Freeden is a political theorist known for his work on the morphology of political ideologies.
Known for: The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies
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The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies
The Oxford Handbook of Political Ideologies offers a comprehensive overview of the study of political ideologies, exploring their historical development, conceptual foundations, and contemporary relevance. It brings together leading scholars to examine major ideological traditions such as liberalism, conservatism, socialism, feminism, nationalism, and environmentalism, as well as emerging and hybrid ideologies. The volume provides critical insights into how ideologies shape political thought, identity, and action across different societies.
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Conceptual Foundations
Ideological analysis begins, for us, with recognition that ideology is not a synonym for distortion. For much of the twentieth century, political theorists viewed ideology through a lens of suspicion — as Marx did, seeing it as a veil obscuring real relations of production, or as positivists did, tr...
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Historical Development
The story of political ideologies is the story of modernity’s self-consciousness. From the Enlightenment onward, as societies grappled with industrialization, secularization, and new political forms, the very idea of systematic political belief took shape. Classical political philosophy was concerne...
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