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<\/figure>New book out now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Contrary to the clich\u00e9 that our age is post-ideological, this book contends that political ideologies are part of the logic itself of modernity and continue to permeate \u2019hyper-modern\u2019 politics. Using a multitude of primary sources (texts) and data, the author identifies the \u2018polar stars\u2019 \u2013 guiding principles such as order, freedom and equality \u2013 around which ideological fields have developed, mainly in Europe, in recent centuries. In place of the too reductive concepts of \u2018left\u2019 and \u2018right\u2019, this book uses a different strategy to analyse the orientations of contemporary political movements, parties, policies and voters: it reconstructs the main ideological \u2018matrices\u2019 of modern politics in their historical origins and subsequent phases of radicalisation and hybridisation, which still continue, both among these political matrices and with \u2018metapolitical\u2019 ideologies like populism. In doing so, the book also propounds a broader theory that helps to interpret recent ideological trends as reflecting a distinctive \u2018double movement\u2019 of modernity: the continuous tension between liberalising pressures for greater individual rights and, vice versa, \u2019centripetal\u2019 countermovements along either the matrix of order or that of socioeconomic equality.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n