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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816037903321

Autore

Steger Manfred B. <1961->

Titolo

The rise of the global imaginary [[electronic resource] ] : political ideologies from the French Revolution to the global war on terror / / Manfred B. Steger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-34174-6

9786611341749

0-19-155824-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (331 p.)

Disciplina

320.5

Soggetti

Political science - History

Right and left (Political science) - History

Ideology - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-305) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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