The rise of the global imaginary : political ideologies from the French Revolution to the global war on terror /

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 ideol...

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Main Author: Steger, Manfred B., 1961-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 318 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-305) and index.
ISBN:9780191558245
0191558249
9780191700408
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9781281341747