| Beyond the Global Culture War Contributor(s): Webb, Adam K. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415953138 ISBN-13: 9780415953139 Publisher: Routledge
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: January 2006 Annotation: "Beyond the Global Culture War" is a broad-ranging political, historical, and philosophical account of the clash between liberal modernity and the forces that resist it. The book starts by identifying four ethoses, or self-understandings, that have contended in all civilizations through history. It shows that liberal modernity amounts to an upending of history, the disruptive rise of one of those four ethoses to unprecedented dominance in public culture. In its first third, the book traces how the ethos that underlies liberalism managed to break past age-old checks on it, through a series of ideological maneuvers between the late nineteenth and mid twentieth centuries. Then it turns to the global culture war today. On one side is the liberal vision of an "end of history," of markets, moral relativism, and technocratic rule. On the other is the strident backlash from Islamists, populists, the Christian Right, Chinese and Hindu nationalists, and the like. The book argues that today's resistanceis doomed to fail for two reasons. First, all versions of it are insular, and lack the universal appeal that would let them meet global liberal culture on its own scale. Second, they have a peculiar moralizing flatness that means they cannot draw on the rich high-culture currents of the past civilizations they claim to defend. The book's final chapters lay out an alternative vision of a truly cosmopolitan and multidimensional challenge to the global liberal order. That vision involves a partnership between plain folk and virtue-cultivating strata, to avert history's dead-end and forge a post-liberal global polity. The book is distinctive in its cross-cultural breadth, covering issues fromWestern and non-Western settings, both pre-modern and modern. It also stakes out an original intellectual and political position: critical of capitalism and technocracy, sympathetic to traditional virtues and the legacies of past civilizations, and avowedly cosmopolitan in scope and vision. Click for more in this series: Global Horizons |
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| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - General - Political Science | International Relations - General |
| Dewey: 320.509 |
| LCCN: 2005015707 |
| Series: Global Horizons |
| Physical Information: 0.57" H x 6.1" W x 8.96" L (0.89 lbs) 290 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |
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