Results for "Steger, Manfred B."

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to millions of fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence billions globally, in which humans are altering the cli... Read More about Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Anchored in the principles of free-market economics, neoliberalism emerged in the 1990s as the world's most dominant economic paradigm. It has been associated with various political leaders from Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, and Bill Clinton... Read More about Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

We live today in an interconnected world in which ordinary people can became instant online celebrities to fans thousands of miles away, in which religious leaders can influence millions globally, in which humans are altering the climate and environment, and in which complex social forces intersect ... Read More about Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)

Neoliberalism. Neoconservatism. Postmarxism. Postmodernism. Is there really something genuinely new about today's "isms?" Have we truly moved past our traditional ideological landscape? Combining political history, philosophical interpretation, and good old-fashioned story-telling, The Rise of the G... Read More about The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror

"Social Capital is an important crtique that should stimulate further analysis and dicussion of what constitutes community." -- New Political Science "The reader emerges with a good sense of the gaps in Putnam's work- or more appropriately in the context of this book, the way in which the 'feelgood'... Read More about Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on Community and Bowling Alone

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