After Liberalism

Informationen zum Autor Immanuel Wallerstein is a senior research scholar in the department of sociology at Yale University and director emeritus of the Fernand Braudel Center at Binghamton University. He is also a resident researcher at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. His many books include The Modern World-System and Historical Capitalism . The New Press has published After Liberalism , The Decline of American Power , and a collection of his works, The Essential Wallerstein . He lives in New Haven, Connecticut, and Paris, France. Klappentext Liberalism, the dominant ideology of the 19th and 20th centuries, has lost its ability to enchant and to organize the world-system. This book examines the disintegration of our modern world-system and explores the historical choices before us. It suggests that there are paths by which we may be able to reconstruct our world-system so that it offers us a more rational and equitable social order. Zusammenfassung In After Liberalism , the distinguished historian and political scientist Immanuel Wallerstein examines the process of disintegration of our modern world-system and speculates on the changes that may occur during the next few decades. He explores the historical choices before us and suggests paths for reconstructing our world-system on a more rational and socially equitable basis.

Product details

• Authors: Immanuel Wallerstein, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, Wallerstein Immanuel
• Publisher: New press usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.1995
• EAN: 9781565843042
• ISBN: 978-1-56584-304-2
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies