Modern Western Political Thought

Author: Xu Datong
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: This book has the following characteristics: , various political thoughts are complex and diverse, colorful and varied. The 20th century was a great historical period when the entire world transformed from traditional to modern society, and it was also a time of extremely complex contradictions and intense social conflicts. The two World Wars were the concentrated manifestation of such contradictions and conflicts. Second, the conflict between the two major categories of ideology—capitalism and socialism—constitutes the focus of modern political thought conflicts. Since the beginning of the modernization process of humanity, the ideological conflict between capitalism and socialism has gradually unfolded with the formation of the two major classes, the bourgeoisie and the proletariat. Third, various political thoughts not only conflict with each other but also learn from and permeate each other. In addition to the conflict between the two major categories of ideology, the 20th-century political thought conflict in the West also involves the division and conflict of different thoughts or schools within each category of ideology. Fourth, the study of political science is developing towards scientification and interdisciplinary integration. Although political science was initially formed as an independent discipline by Aristotle in ancient Greece, its subsequent research for a long period remained largely within the realm of political philosophy. This book primarily studies the basic conditions of the development and evolution of political thought in Western developed capitalist countries since the late 19th and early 20th centuries, comprising 3 parts and 14 chapters.