the best world-system stuff on world views i have seen is that by the
anthropologist Jonathan Friedman (_Cultural Identity and Global Process_
Sage 1994). Al Bergesen has written insightfully about art and hegemony,
and I like what David Harvey says about the relationship between
flexible specialization and postmodernism in his _The Condition of
Postmodernity_. But I remain an unreconstructed Marvin Harrisite (ist).
Ideas are mainly reflections of material interests.
But even I have to admit that the current hegemony of neoliberalism in a
context of declining U.S. hegemony and global crisis is a rather
interesting phenomenon. Go figure.
chris