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 good old-fashioned story-telling, Manfred B. Steger traces ideology's remarkable journey from Count Destutt de Tracy's Enlightenment "science of ideas" to President George W. Bush's "imperial globalism." Rejecting futile attempts to "update" modern political belief systems by adorning them with prefixes, the author offers instead a highly original explanation for their novelty--their increasing...

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