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The rise of the global imaginary : political ideologies from the French Revolution to the global war on terror / Manfred B. Steger.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Steger, Manfred B., 1961-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science--History.
- Political science.
- Right and left (Political science)--History.
- Right and left (Political science).
- Ideology--History.
- Ideology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (331 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A tour de force examination of the contemporary ideological landscape by one of the world's leading analysts of globalization. - ;Neoliberalism. Neoconservatism. Postmarxism. Postmodernism. Is there really something genuinely new about today's isms? Have we moved past our traditional ideological landscape? Combining political history, philosophical interpretation, and good old-fashioned story-telling, Manfred Steger traces ideology's remarkable journey from Count Destutt de Tracy's Enlightenment "" to President George W. Bush's "" Rejecting futile attempts to. "" modern political belief system
- Contents:
- Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Political Ideologies and Social Imaginaries; Part I. The National Imaginary; 1. Ideology and Revolution: From Superscience to False Consciousness; 2. The Grand Ideologies of the Nineteenth Century: British Liberalism, French Conservatism, and German Socialism; 3. Twentieth-Century Totalitarianisms: Russian Communism and German Nazism; Part II. The Global Imaginary; 4. Third-World Liberationism and Other Cold War Isms: No End to Ideology; 5. Market Globalism and Justice Globalism in the Roaring Nineties
- 6. Jihadist Globalism versus Imperial Globalism: The Great Ideological Struggle of the Twenty-First Century?Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-305) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-281-34174-6
- 9786611341749
- 0-19-155824-9
- OCLC:
- 476246042
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