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

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.

Author: Manfred B. Steger
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 08/01/2009
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780199286942

About the Author

Manfred B. Steger is Professor of Global Studies and Academic Director of the Globalism Institute at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Globalization Research Center at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. His academic fields of expertise include global studies, political and social theory, peace studies, and international politics. He has served as consultant on globalization for the US State Department and he has been an adviser for the 2005 US PBS television series, "Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism." He has presented dozens of invited lectures and keynote addresses on globalization in Australia, Asia, North America, and Europe. His most recent publications include Globalism Market Ideology Meets Terrorism, 2nd ed. (2005); Judging Nonviolence: The Dispute Between Realists and Idealists (2003); Globalization: AVery Short Introduction (OUP, 2003).

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