Re-energizing Ideology Studies

Michael Freeden is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Oxford, UK. His various books investigate liberalism, ideology, and the nature of political thinking, and he is the founder-editor of the Journal of Political Ideologies. He has been awarded the Sir Isaiah Berlin Prize for Lifetime Contribution to Political Studies by the UK Political Studies Association, and the Medal for Science, Institute of Advanced Studies, Bologna University.

• Introduction Michael Freeden 1. Still the stranger at the feast? Ideology and the study of twentieth century British politics Dean Blackburn 2. ‘Submission’: ambiguity, hypocrisy and misanthropy in Michel Houellebecq’s imaginary politics Anders Berg-Sørensen 3. Totalitarianism and the end of the end-of-ideology Richard Shorten 4. ‘The spark gap is mightier than the pen’: the promotion of an ideology of science in the early 1930s Robert Bud 5. The attraction of ideology: discourse, desire and the body Christoffer Kølvraa and Jan Ifversen 6. Ideology in the age of mediatized politics: from ‘belief systems’ to the re-contextualizing principle of discourse Angelos Kissas 7. Neoliberal feminism as political ideology: revitalizing the study of feminist political ideologies Michaele L. Ferguson 8. International ideologies: paradigms of ideological analysis and world politics Benjamin Martill 9. Back to the populist future?: understanding nostalgia in contemporary ideological discourse Michael Kenny 10. Ideology, socialism and the everyday: forgotten lessons from the inter-war years? Marc Stears 11. Ideology in three voices: an adapted methodology for the study of political ideology Anthony A. J. Williams