The culmination of a major trilogy, this study of socialism, liberalism and conservatism - and then of Marxist communism - confronts the work of great political philosophers and exposes the assumptions underpinning each ideology.

In Search of a Political Philosophy is an analysis of the three democratic `isms' - conservatism, liberalism and socialism - and of the distinct nature of the all-devouring ideology - Marxist communism. The author is concerned with the conscious and unconscious assumptions of the proponents and followers of each ideology, and those of their theoreticians and critics.