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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

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Steger, Manfred B., 1961-
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)
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Contents
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?
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 b
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9780191558245 (electronic bk.)
0191558249 (electronic bk.)
9780191700408 (ebook)
0191700401 (ebook)
1281341746
9781281341747
0199286930 (Cloth)
9780199286935
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-305) and index.
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