Ideology and Revolution
How the Struggle against Domination Drives the Evolution of Morality and Institutions
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 20 March 2025
- ISBN 9781009542524
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages250 pages
- Size 235x158x19 mm
- Weight 520 g
- Language English 765
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Short description:
Offers a theory of social change that accords a central role to the struggle against domination through the exercise of hierarchical power.
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In our society there is a constant struggle between powerful, institutionalized hierarchies and people who try to resist them. Whether this resistance succeeds (either partially or completely) or fails, the struggle causes large-scale social change, including changes in morality and institutions and in how hierarchy and the struggle itself are conceived. In this book, Allen Buchanan analyzes the complex connections between the struggle for liberation from domination, ideology, and changes in morality and institutions, and develops a conflict theory of social change, which is systematically laid out in five clear components with a chapter dedicated to each. He examines the co-evolutionary and co-dependent nature of the struggle between hierarchs and resisters, and the appeals to morality which are routinely made by both sides. His book will be of interest to a broad readership of students and scholars in philosophy, history, political science, economics, sociology, and law.
'In this fascinating book, Allen Buchanan presents an empirically rich and normatively powerful account of how struggles against structures as well as justifications of domination lead to social and moral progress. In particular, he develops original and comprehensive accounts of social evolution, of ideology and of revolution - a true masterpiece by one of the foremost political philosophers of our time.' Rainer Forst, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main
Table of Contents:
Introduction; 1. The structure and recurring patterns of the perpetual struggle against domination; 2. Revolution and the explanatory power of the concept of ideology; 3. Ideology and the authoritarian tendency of revolutions; 4. The ethics of revolution and intervention in revolution; 5. Findings and suggestions for further research; References; Index.
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