Drawing on the best of Hegel, the Marxian legacy, Sartre, and American Pragmatism as well as on his own rich experience in Western and Eastern Europe, William McBride has written a splendid and challenging volume. He skillfully assesses slogans such as 'post-Marxism,' 'human rights,' 'civil society,' 'the clash of civilizations,' and 'globalization;' excoriates U.S. consumerism, NATO's bombing of Yugoslavia, and Northern hegemony over the South; identifies serious flaws in the political philosophies of Habermas, Rawls, and Rorty; and adumbrates an appealing alternative that is democratic, pluralistic, cosmopolitan, and hopeful.

David A. Crocker, University of Maryland at College Park

Masterful, coherent and insightful collection.

William Alejandro Martin, McMaster University

This important book should be read by everybody interested in critical philosophical and social-scientific examination of globalization and its hegemonic political, economic, ideological and cultural tendencies.

Svetozar Stojanovic, The Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade