The rise of the global imaginary: political ideologies from the French Revolution to the global war on terror
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Main Author: Steger, Manfred B. 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2008
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Online Access:KUBA3
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-305) and index
Introduction : political ideologies and social imaginaries -- Ideology and revolution : from superscience to false consciousness -- The grand ideologies of the nineteenth century : British liberalism, French conservatism, and German socialism -- Twentieth-century totalitarianisms : Russian communism and German nazism -- Third-world liberationism and other Cold War isms : no end to ideology -- Market globalism and justice globalism in the roaring nineties -- Jihadist globalism versus imperial globalism : the great ideological struggle of the twenty-first century?
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 b
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 318 p.)
ISBN:9780191558245
0191558249
9780199286935

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