The description of Ottoman Smyrna, with which the book opens, is a potent evocation of a lost world.His summaries of the political and ideological developments in 20th-century Greece are models of concision, illuminating even to those who know the facts.
This article places Russia's recent ideological developments in a perspective that is drawn from social identity theory (SIT).
It reflects on the major schools of Chinese thought including Confucianism, Daoism and Zen Buddhism, providing a historical perspective on the ideological development of China in terms of the relationship between man and nature, social ethics, political governance, poetry education, aesthetic criticism and art theory.
What is perhaps most interesting in terms of his personal ideological development and the way in which debate has shifted over the decades is that he no longer advocates, as the left did back in the 1980s, a return to nationalisation across the board.
"This was the turning point in my ideological development as it signaled the beginning of my complete hatred and opposition to the entire system Australia and the majority of the world was based upon," he wrote.
In the early stages of their ideological development, neoconservatives saw themselves more as reformed liberals than as true conservatives.
Weyrich has watched and helped guide his friend's ideological development over the years.
They do so by allowing ideological conflict, which is a powerful engine of ideological development.
Finally, in On Liberty and On Representative Government, Mill considers how a society's institutions can retard or accelerate ideological development.
History, according to Hegel's metaphysical account, is driven by ideological development.
