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Ideas are the cogs that drive history, and understanding them is half way to being aboard that powerful juggernaut rather than under its wheels. This is a book that celebrates the power of ideas: thought can, and does, change the world. And, in turn, ideas evolve. Fundamentalism, environmentalism and bioethics are defining our future just as Marxism, feminism or existentialism have influenced our present. So what do we need to know as we move into the 21st century? More than a simple reference work, this is A.C. Graylings personal and heartfelt guide to the ideas, past and present, that shape our world. Covering religion, philosophy, scientific theory and political movements, each alphabetically ordered entry illuminates, elucidates and provokes. Written with Graylings customary fire and erudition, the result is a book that aims both to arm readers with knowledge and engage them in philosophical debate.

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Acknowledgements
My thanks go to Celia Hayley for her assiduous editorial work and her patience, which latter was considerably taxed but unfailing; she acted as midwife to the project while her own first child was on the way, and her help is warmly appreciated. So too is the invaluable help I received from Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss and Kate Smith-Jones, who I may now count as tutors as well as friends. My thanks go also to Alan Samson, Florence Mackenzie, Sophie Erskine, Felice Schoenberg, Bea Hemming and Catherine Clarke, for the invaluable help they variously gave, directly and indirectly. This project started in a now somewhat remote past in a different guise under the erudite care of Richard Milbank, to whom thanks are due for its very existence. Finally no workaholic scribbler can fail to salute the tolerance and support of long-suffering loved ones who perforce shared house-room with a big and demanding book: with Horace I am moved to say, quod peto hic est, est Ulubris.
Appendix
Entries in the body of the book are alphabetically arranged. Below are the main entry headings grouped according to relations of subject matter, with Politics and Society being subdivided into Politics and Law and Society and Social Questions - this last a more heterogeneous category than the others - followed by Philosophy, Religion and Science. Because of the inevitable problem of lumping and splitting - the question of whether to subsume certain ideas under certain others, or to give each a separate entry - the main headings disguise the fact that a larger number of ideas are discussed than the heading words by themselves suggest; so the index is the key resource and true guide to the contents of this book.
Attentive conning of the lists below will show that a number of headings figure in more than one category - the reasons are obvious enough, and the fact that there is some repetition and overlap in the entries anyway is useful in showing how ideas figure in different settings and conceptual relationships. But each entry is self-standing, and aims to be informative on its own.
The bibliography consists of short indicative lists for each of the entries, intended merely as prompts or starting points for further enquiry.
POLITICS AND SOCIETY
Politics and Law
absolutism
activism
anarchism
aristocracy
black consciousness
Black Power
capitalism
class
communism
democracy
economics
equality
Fascism
feminism
freedom of speech
globalization
human rights
identity
justice
law
liberalism
liberty
Marxism
nationalism
neoconservatism
politics
privacy
punishment
socialism
totalitarianism
war
war crimes
Westernization

Society and SocialQuestions
accommodation theory
activism
advertising
anthropocentrism
anti-Semitism
civilization
cognitive therapy
consumerism
economics
education
ethnocentrism
feminism
freedom of speech
future, the
history
human rights
identity
Internet
liberty
love
multiculturalism
postmodernism
privacy
psychoanalysis
psychology
punishment
racism
relativism
religion
Romanticism
science
slavery
sociobiology
technology
terrorism
tolerance
utopia
vegetarianism
war
war crimes
wealth
Westernization
xenophobia
Zeitgeist

PHILOSOPHY

aesthetics
altruism
animal rights
anthropocentrism
autonomy
bioethics
business ethics
cloning
consequentialism
deontology
egoism
Enlightenment
epistemology
equality
ethics
ethics, history of
euthanasia
existentialism
experimental philosophy
falsifiability
game theory
history
humanism
human rights
identity
Intuitionism, mathematical and logical
irrationalism
logic
logic, fallacies of informal
love
meaning, theory of
metaphysics
mind, philosophy of
neurophilosophy
philosophy
positivism
postmodernism
psychology
realism
relativism
Romanticism
scepticism
scientific revolutions
sociobiology
truth
utopia
verificationism
virtue ethics

RELIGION

afterlife
agnosticism
anti-Semitism
atheism
Buddhism
Catholicism
Christianity
creationism
Daoism (Taoism)
fundamentalism
Hinduism and brahmanism
Islam
Judaism
Orthodox Christianity
Protestantism religion
secularism

SCIENCE

anthropic principle
artificial intelligence
Big Bang cosmology
biodiversity
bioethics
biology
biopoiesis
black holes
cloning
cognitive science
evolution
future, the
Internet
neuroscience
quantum mechanics
relativity
science
scientific revolutions
sociobiology
standard model
string theory
technology
A Short Indicative Bibliography
ABSOLUTISM
Filmer, R., Patriarcha and Other Writings (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
Hobbes, T., Leviathan (Longman, 2008)
Kelsey, H., Absolutism and Relativism in Philosophy and Politics (Irvington, 1993)

ACCOMMODATION THEORY
Giles, H., Coupland, N., and Coupland, J., Accommodation Theory: Communication, Context, and Consequence, in H. Giles, N. Coupland and J. Coupland (eds.), Contexts of Accommodation: Developments in Applied Linguistics (Cambridge University Press, 1991)

ACTIVISM
Carson, R., Silent Spring (Penguin Classics, 2000)
Shaw, R., The Activists Handbook (University of California Press, 2001)
Tarrow, S., The New Transnational Activism (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

ADVERTISING
Conrad Levinson, J., and Rubin, C., Guerrilla Advertising (Houghton Mifflin, 1994)
Packard, V., The Hidden Persuaders (Ig Publishing, 2007)
Steel, J., Truth, Lies and Advertising: The Art of Account Planning (John Wiley & Sons, 1998)

AESTHETICS
Bourriaud, N., Relational Aesthetics (Les Presses du Rel, 1998)
Danto, A.C., The Abuse of Beauty (Paul Carus Lectures) (Open Court Publishing Co., 2003)
Dickie, G., Introduction to Aesthetics: An Analytic Approach (Oxford University Press, USA, 1997)

AFTERLIFE
The Bible: Authorized King James Version (Oxford Paperbacks, 2008, Matthew 27: 50-4)
Browne, S., and Harrison, L., Life on the Other Side: A Psychics Tour of the Afterlife (Signet, 2001)
Fry, C., Secrets From the Afterlife (Ebury Press, 2008)
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