ABSTRACT
In Search of a Political Philosophy is an analysis of the three democratic `isms' - conservatism, liberalism and socialism - and of the distinct nature of the all-devouring ideology - Marxist communism. The author is concerned with the conscious and unconscious assumptions of the proponents and followers of each ideology, and those of their theoreticians and critics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Introduction Conceptual vagueness of political ideologies
part |87 pages
Prudential conservatism
chapter |15 pages
Norms and relativism
chapter |11 pages
‘Progress' and change
chapter |21 pages
Freedom and authority
chapter |12 pages
Prudence and politics
chapter |14 pages
The Burkean legacy
chapter |12 pages
The nature of government
part |101 pages
Empty liberalism
chapter |17 pages
The liberal tradition
chapter |35 pages
The liberal mosaic
chapter |19 pages
Distributive justice
chapter |17 pages
Liberal liberty and liberal rights
part |101 pages
Hedonistic socialism
chapter |15 pages
What is socialism?
chapter |19 pages
Socialism and freedom
chapter |14 pages
Socialism and the modern welfare state
chapter |15 pages
Freedom in democracy
chapter |20 pages
Marxist impact on socialism
chapter |16 pages
Return to utopianism
part |96 pages
The tyranny of ideology
chapter |24 pages
The illusion of the ‘end of ideology'
chapter |37 pages
Ideology as power
chapter |22 pages
Facing the Soviet ideo-system
chapter |11 pages
Sources of Western incomprehension
part |22 pages
Conclusion