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Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018): Maiken Umbach, Mathew Humphrey Authenticity: The Cultural History of a Political Concept (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Maiken Umbach, Mathew Humphrey
R1,521 Discovery Miles 15 210 Ships in 10 - 17 working days

Authenticity is everywhere: political leaders invoke the idea to gain our support, advertisers use it to sell their products. But is authenticity a dangerous hoax? What is, and is not, authentic has been hotly debated ever since the concept was invented. Many academics have sought to "unmask" authenticity claims as deceptive. This book takes a different approach. In chapters covering historical and contemporary examples, the authors explore why authenticity, real or imagined, exercises such a powerful hold on our imaginations. The chapters trace how invocations of authenticity borrow from one another, across arenas such as philosophy and theology, encounters with nature, leisure, and mass consumption, political and corporate leadership, left-wing and right-wing ideologies. This cultural history of authenticity is of interest to academic and lay readers alike, who are interested in the significance and history of a concept that shapes how we understand ourselves and the world we live in.

Ideologies in Action - Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas (Hardcover): Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock, Maiken Umbach Ideologies in Action - Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas (Hardcover)
Mathew Humphrey, David Laycock, Maiken Umbach
R4,200 Discovery Miles 42 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ideologies in Action: Morphological Adaptation and Political Ideas explores how political ideas move across geographical, social and chronological boundaries. Focusing on North American and European case studies ranging from populist tax revolts through parenting advice manuals to online learning environments, the contributors propose new methods for understanding how political entrepreneurs, intellectuals and ordinary citizens deploy and redefine ideologies. All of these groups are consumers of ideology, drawing on pre-existing, transnational ideological concepts and narratives in order to make sense of the world. They are also all producers of ideology, adapting and reconfiguring ideological material to support their own political aims, desires and policy objectives. In doing so, they combine common conceptual elements - interpretations of freedom, order, national identity, democracy, community or equality - with sentiments and imaginations deeply embedded in cultural and social practice. To render these ideological practices intelligible, the contributors to this volume blend conceptual morphology, which emphasizes how meaning emerges in and through connections between political ideas, with close readings of the vernacular and experiential dimensions of ideologies in action. This book offers new insights into how ideologies in varied social and political settings can be decoded, and challenges hierarchical distinctions between ideological 'producers' and 'consumers'. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Political Ideologies.

Taking Ideology Seriously - 21st  Century Reconfigurations (Paperback): Gayil Talshir, Mathew Humphrey, Michael Freeden Taking Ideology Seriously - 21st Century Reconfigurations (Paperback)
Gayil Talshir, Mathew Humphrey, Michael Freeden
R1,431 Discovery Miles 14 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of the 'end of ideology' thesis, not as a theoretical stance but as a reaction to what appears to have been the decline of major ideological families, such as socialism, in a changing world order. Globalization, as well as internal national fragmentation of belief systems, have made it difficult to identify ideology in its conventional formats. Previously published as a special issue of The Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, this volume challenges the notion that we are living in a post-ideological age. It offers a theoretical framework for exploring some of the new manifestations of ideologies, and combines this with a series of case studies relating to recent ideational phenomena, such as populism, environmentalism and Islamic fundamentalism. The contributors reassess some typologies, such as the left-right axis, as an explanatory device and use ideology research to bring together different scholarly perspectives including party-political analysis, the history of ideas, post-Marxism, and movement politics.

Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory - The Challenge to the Deliberative Ideal (Paperback): Mathew Humphrey Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory - The Challenge to the Deliberative Ideal (Paperback)
Mathew Humphrey
R1,403 Discovery Miles 14 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume examines the reasons why some despair at the prospects for an ecological form of democracy, and challenges the recent deliberative turn in environmental political thought.

Deliberative democracy has become popular for those seeking a reconciliation of these two forms of politics. Demand for equal access to a public forum in which the best argument will prevail appears to offer a way of incorporating environmental interests into the democratic process. This book argues that deliberative theory, far from being friendly to the environmental movement, shackles the ability those seeking radical change to make their voices heard in the most effective manner.

Mathew Humphrey challenges beliefs about the relationship between ecological politics and democracy at a time when those who take direct action are being swept up in the War on Terror. By calling for a more open and contested form of democracy, in which the boundaries of what constitutes acceptable behaviour are not decided in advance of actual debate, Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory is an original contribution to the literature on environmental politics, ecological thought and democracy.

Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory - The Challenge to the Deliberative Ideal (Hardcover, annotated edition): Mathew... Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory - The Challenge to the Deliberative Ideal (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Mathew Humphrey
R4,352 Discovery Miles 43 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume examines the reasons why some despair at the prospects for an ecological form of democracy, and challenges the recent 'deliberative turn' in environmental political thought.

Deliberative democracy has become popular for those seeking a reconciliation of these two forms of politics. Demand for equal access to a public forum in which the best argument will prevail appears to offer a way of incorporating environmental interests into the democratic process. This book argues that deliberative theory, far from being friendly to the environmental movement, shackles the ability those seeking radical change to make their voices heard in the most effective manner.

Mathew Humphrey challenges beliefs about the relationship between ecological politics and democracy at a time when those who take direct action are being swept up in the War on Terror. By calling for a more open and contested form of democracy, in which the boundaries of what constitutes 'acceptable' behaviour are not decided in advance of actual debate, Ecological Politics and Democratic Theory is an original contribution to the literature on environmental politics, ecological thought and democracy.

Preservation Versus the People? - Nature, Humanity, and Political Philosophy (Hardcover): Mathew Humphrey Preservation Versus the People? - Nature, Humanity, and Political Philosophy (Hardcover)
Mathew Humphrey
R1,920 Discovery Miles 19 200 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book looks anew at the question of nature preservation as public policy. The philosophy of nature preservation has to date focused on whether arguments for nature preservation should be centred on the value of nature itself (ecocentrism) or derived human benefits (anthropocentrism). This book argues that this way of thinking about the problem of preservation has been counter-productive for environmental ethics. Instead we need to unite both views around a concern for the irreplaceability of natural objects.

Taking Ideology Seriously - 21st  Century Reconfigurations (Hardcover): Gayil Talshir, Mathew Humphrey, Michael Freeden Taking Ideology Seriously - 21st Century Reconfigurations (Hardcover)
Gayil Talshir, Mathew Humphrey, Michael Freeden
R4,490 Discovery Miles 44 900 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Recent years have witnessed a resurgence of the 'end of ideology' thesis, not as a theoretical stance but as a reaction to what appears to have been the decline of major ideological families, such as socialism, in a changing world order. Globalization, as well as internal national fragmentation of belief systems, have made it difficult to identify ideology in its conventional formats. Previously published as a special issue of The Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, this volume challenges the notion that we are living in a post-ideological age. It offers a theoretical framework for exploring some of the new manifestations of ideologies, and combines this with a series of case studies relating to recent ideational phenomena, such as populism, environmentalism and Islamic fundamentalism. The contributors reassess some typologies, such as the left-right axis, as an explanatory device and use ideology research to bring together different scholarly perspectives including party-political analysis, the history of ideas, post-Marxism, and movement politics.

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