Beyond the Global Culture War

ISBN-13: 9780415953139 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 290 str.

Adam Kempton Webb

Opis

Beyond the Global Culture War presents a cross-cultural critique of global liberalism and argues for a broad-based challenge that can meet it on its own scale. Adam Webb is one of our most exciting and original young scholars, and this book is certain to generate many new debates. This timely volume probes many of the key challenges we face in the new millennium. This is essential reading for all students of politics and globalization.

Spis treści

Introduction I: Ethoses Across Time and Space Demots Perfectionists Virtuocrats Atomi sts Among Ethoses and Civilisations II: The Atomist Revolt and the Manoeuvres of Modernity Bridgehead Atomism and the Upending of History Challenges and the Global Dilemma Pacts and the Image of Progress Meritocracy as Cultural Strategy III: Universal Atomism Atomists, Liberals, and Knowing a Culture War When One Sees It Self and Character at History's End Atop the Demotic Residue Political Liberalism and the Myth of Neutrality Globalisation as Escape Heritage in Reverse IV: Resistances Modernity's Malcontents Moralist Manifestos Fortresses Become Prisons The New Left, the Ayatollahs, and the Ivory Tower V: From a Globe to a World Lessons and Prospects The Triple Partnership and the World Commonwealth Spectres of the Stake Reclaiming History

O autorze

Adam K. Webb