The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror

By Manfred B. Steger

Book Overview

Combining political history, philosophical interpretation and story-telling, Steger traces ideology's remarkable journey from de Tracy's Enlightenment 'science of ideas' to George W. Bush's 'imperial globalism'. He finds in '-isms' an ability to articulate deep-seated understandings of community in global rather than national terms.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199286949
• ISBN13: 9780199286942
• Release Date: August 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"