Ideas in politics
Presents lectures by political theorist Jeremy Shearmur, explaining the key ideas that shape today's political landscape.
| Main Author: | Shearmur, Jeremy, 1948- |
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| Format: | Cassette |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Chantilly, VA :
Teaching Co.,
[2001]
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| Physical Description: |
12 audiocassettes : analog, Dolby processed + 2 course guidebooks (each ii, 74 pages ; 22 cm.) |
| Series: |
The great courses.
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| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- lecture 1. Setting the table
- lecture 2. Liberalism introduced
- lecture 3. Liberalism
- lecture 4. Liberalism in dispute
- lecture 5. Libertarianism
- lecture 6. Conservatism, part 1
- lecture 7. Conservatism, part 2
- lecture 8. How society works
- lecture 9. Social capital, part 1
- lecture 10. Social capital, part 2
- lecture 11. Socialism
- lecture 12. Non-Marxist socialism
- lecture 13. Socialism, problems & objections
- lecture 14. Ecological ideas, part 1
- lecture 15. Ecological ideas, part 2
- lecture 16. Feminism
- lecture 17. Problems of liberal feminism
- lecture 18. Feminism concluded
- lecture 19. Nationalism
- lecture 20. Multiculturalism
- lecture 21. Gay & lesbian politics
- lecture 22. Religion & politics in the West
- lecture 23. Toleration, censorship & pornography
- lecture 24. The end of history.