books by Manfred Steger     books:       Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Manfred Steger Oxford University Press, USA, 2013 Globalization has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time--a term that describes a variety of complex economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental forces that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. In clear, accessible language, Manfred B. Steger goes beyond a narrow economic focus to cover all the major causes and consequences of globalization as well as the hotly contested question of whether globalization ...             Engels After Marx Manfred B. Steger Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995 One hundred years after the death of Friedrich Engels, the long-time colleague of Karl Marx continues to influence the thought of socialist thinkers. This critical reappraisal of Engels addresses his relevance after both the death of Marx and the decline of Marxism, bringing Engels out from under the shadow of Marx to show the theoretical significance and historical impact of his wide-ranging criticisms for philosophy, science, political ...             Globalization (A Brief Insight) Manfred Steger Sterling, 2010 For many scholars and political activists, “globalization” encompasses a variety of economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental practices that have accelerated in the last few decades. Manfred Steger presents globalization in plain, readable English as a multifaceted system encompassing global, regional, and local aspects of social life. In addition to unpacking the term’s various dimensions, he investigates whether ...             Zen Radicals, Rebels, and Reformers Perle Besserman, Manfred Steger Wisdom Publications, 2011 The revolutionary figures in this book are those innovative, nonconformist Zen masters who often disguised their spiritual prowess by portraying themselves as lowly drifters, beggars, and Zen "madmen." They are individuals whose unorthodox behavior has defined the radical Buddhist movement known simply as Zen. This book contains stories of Zen "boat-rockers" and rebels that range from early 8th-century China all the way to the bustling streets ...             Globalisms: The Great Ideological Struggle of the Twenty-first Century (Globalization) Manfred B. Steger Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008 This new edition of Manfred Steger's award-winning book explores the three principal ideologies of our time: the dominant "market globalism" based on a neoliberal vision of the world as a single marketplace, the "justice globalism" developed over the last decade by a transnational coalition of global civil society forces, and the "jihadist globalism" of radical Islamists seeking to galvanize their global community of believers into violent ...             Neoliberalism: A Very Short Introduction Manfred B. Steger, Ravi K. Roy Oxford University Press, 2010 Anchored in the principles of the free-market economics, "neoliberalism" has been associated with such different political leaders as Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Augusto Pinochet, and Junichiro Koizumi. In its heyday during the late 1990s, neoliberalism emerged as the world's dominant economic paradigm, stretching from the Anglo-American heartlands of capitalism to the former communist bloc all the way to the ...             The Rise of the Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror Manfred B. Steger Oxford University Press, USA, 2008 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 Global Imaginary: Political Ideologies from the French Revolution to the Global War on Terror traces ideology's remarkable journey from Count ...             Globalization: A Very Short Introduction Manfred Steger Oxford University Press, 2009 Globalization has become one of the defining buzzwords of our time--a term that describes a variety of complex economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental forces that are rapidly altering our experience of the world. In the years since World War II, we have seen national boundaries fade as financial markets, manufacturing concerns, information services, and cultural products (including movies, music, and television shows) have ...             Globalization: The Greatest Hits, a Global Studies Reader Manfred B. Steger Paradigm Publishers, 2010 A veritable rock star of global studies, Manfred B. Steger has brought together here the greatest hits of the field since it emerged in the 1980s. In addition to carefully selecting and editing twenty of the most influential pieces on globalization out of a vast repertoire of writing, Steger provides an original and insightful introduction that spotlights the gist of these gems while showing how they build on one another thematically. Manageable ...             Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Manfred B. Steger Oxford University Press, USA, 2003 "Globalization" has become the buzz-word of our time. A growing number of scholars and political activists have invoked the term to describe a variety of changing economic, political, cultural, ideological, and environmental processes that are alleged to have accelerated in the last few decades. Rather than forcing such a complex social phenomenon into a single conceptual framework, Manfred Steger presents globalization in plain, readable ...             The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy Manfred B. Steger Cambridge University Press, 2006 The Quest for Evolutionary Socialism is a timely response to the need for a new, comprehensive biography of the life and works of Eduard Bernstein, the German "Father of Marxist Revisionism". Professor Steger addresses recent academic developments and current debates on the "End of Socialism". Setting this study within the historical context of the European labor movement, Steger thus interprets Bernstein's "Evolutionary Socialism" as an ...             Grassroots Zen Perle Besserman, Manfred Steger Tuttle Publishing, 2001 Many Zen Buddhist practitioners have come to question some of Japanese Zen's less democratic aspects-from the strict, male-dominated hierarchies to the racial overtones. At the same time, modern American Buddhists often find it difficult to integrate zazen (seated Zen meditation) with lives of family, work, and social engagement. This book offers a fascinating guide to overcoming both these dilemmas. A study of how one Zen group returned to an ...             Globalism: Market Ideology Meets Terrorism (Globalization) Manfred B. Steger Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005 Winner of the 2003 Michael Harrington Award The new edition of Globalism picks up where the first edition left off_sandwiched between the G-8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, and the terrorist attacks of 9/11. As global challengers moved from peaceful protest to more violent confrontation, the market ideology of the dominant Western perspective transformed into what Steger terms an 'imperial globalism' led by the United States. With the birth of this ...             Crazy Clouds: Zen Radicals, Rebels & Reformers Perle Besserman, Manfred Steger Shambhala, 1991             Social Capital: Critical Perspectives on Community and "Bowling Alone" NYU Press, 2002 " 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' factor of Putnam's work deserves critical analysis." — Voluntas: International Journal of Voluntary and Nonprofit Organizations This ...             by Manfred Steger Globalization: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) (text only)2nd(Second) ... by Manfred Steger Oxford University Press, USA, 2009             Violence and Its Alternatives: An Interdisciplinary Reader Palgrave Macmillan, 1999 The proliferation of violence is arguably one of the most crucial topics of concern in an era of ethnic wars on one hand, and cultural debates about what constitutes violence in arenas of pornography, nationalism, race relations, the media, even environmental issues on the other. Violence and Its Alternatives fills the existing gap in the literature on violence with essays from the most influential writers in the fields of politics, ...             Globalism: The New Market Ideology Manfred B. Steger Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001 Globalism: The New Market Ideology rejects the notion that we find ourselves at the end of ideology and that democracy has won. Instead, Steger argues that the opening decade of the 21st century will constitute a teeming battlefield of clashing ideologies. The chief protagonist is the dominant neoliberal market ideology Steger calls "globalism." Although globalism constitutes little more than a gigantic repackaging of old laissez-faire ideas, ...             Rethinking Globalism (Globalization) Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003 What is the hottest American export since 9/11? The contributors to this provocative volume contend that it is Western style globalism-the dominant free market ideology that determines everything from most-favored-nation status to the declaration of war. In this much-needed post-September 11 analysis, an interdisciplinary team of authors shows how central concepts like globalization, liberty, free markets, and free trade are increasingly being ...             Justice Globalism: Ideology, Crises, Policy Manfred Steger, James Goodman, ... SAGE Publications Ltd, 2012 Are political activists connected to the global justice movement simplistically opposed to neoliberal globalization? Is their political vision 'incoherent' and their policy proposals 'naïve' and 'superficial' as is often claimed by the mainstream media? Drawing on dozens of interviews and rich textual analyses involving nearly fifty global justice organizations linked to the World Social Forum, the authors of this pioneering study ...              search for books alternatives, bernstein, community, critical, democracy, evolutionary, globalism, globalisms, globalization, grassroots, greatest, ideological, ideologies, ideology, imaginary, interdisciplinary, introduction, introductions, neoliberalism, paperback, perspectives, political, radicals, reformers, rethinking, revolution, socialism, struggle, terrorism, twenty-first books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: The Indie Band Survival Guide, 2nd Ed.: The Complete Manual for the ... home  impressum - about us