Ends of Globalization
Published on 14. July 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
212 pages
978-0-8166-3593-1 (ISBN)
Description
A uniquely broad perspective that challenges current ideas about worldwide cultural and political change.
Political and Social Theory/Cultural Studies
A uniquely broad perspective that challenges current ideas about worldwide cultural and political change.
An intervention into current debates about globalization, nationalism, imperialism, and culture, this book offers a cogent critique of much of what is being said about globalization, by both the Right and the Left. In doing so, it charts the complex processes of globalization, drawing out their historical and philosophical roots and outlining the connections between cultural, political, and economic life that globalization has made, historically and in our day.
The author's orientation toward political theory and comparative civilizations-a rarity in globalization studies-allows him to detect in specific terms what is most dangerous and opportune in what is happening in the world today. Mohammed A. Bamyeh makes a compelling argument that we are witnessing a process typified by massive disjunctions between political, cultural, and economic logics on a world scale. Bamyeh demonstrates how the disruptions caused by globalization, while they blur our vision and block our rational approaches, also possess the potential to liberate the autonomous and convivial human possibilities and capabilities long shackled by such modernist institutions of governance as the nation-state.
Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press
Political and Social Theory/Cultural Studies
A uniquely broad perspective that challenges current ideas about worldwide cultural and political change.
An intervention into current debates about globalization, nationalism, imperialism, and culture, this book offers a cogent critique of much of what is being said about globalization, by both the Right and the Left. In doing so, it charts the complex processes of globalization, drawing out their historical and philosophical roots and outlining the connections between cultural, political, and economic life that globalization has made, historically and in our day.
The author's orientation toward political theory and comparative civilizations-a rarity in globalization studies-allows him to detect in specific terms what is most dangerous and opportune in what is happening in the world today. Mohammed A. Bamyeh makes a compelling argument that we are witnessing a process typified by massive disjunctions between political, cultural, and economic logics on a world scale. Bamyeh demonstrates how the disruptions caused by globalization, while they blur our vision and block our rational approaches, also possess the potential to liberate the autonomous and convivial human possibilities and capabilities long shackled by such modernist institutions of governance as the nation-state.
Translation Inquiries: University of Minnesota Press
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minnesota
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 149 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-8166-3593-1 (9780816635931)
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Person
Mohammed A. Bamyeh teaches comparative civilizations, social theory, and historical sociology at New York University. He is the author of The Social Origins of Islam (Minnesota, 1999).