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Ideology and Revolution: How the Struggle Against Domination Drives the Evolution of Morality and Institutions

By Allen Buchanan

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2025
ISBN
9781009542494, 9781009542524
DOI
10.1017/9781009542494
Google Books ID
Qp8c0QEACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2225336 bytes)
Pages
250\252
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2025-03-22 11:41:37
Political Theory; Sociology; Politics and Internat

Description

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.

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