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Book Synopsis Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis by : David Ray Griffin
Download or read book Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis written by David Ray Griffin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely new—one based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership.
Book Synopsis Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis by : David Ray Griffin
Download or read book Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis written by David Ray Griffin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1993-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely newone based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership.
Book Synopsis Postmodernism and Public Policy by : John B. Cobb
Download or read book Postmodernism and Public Policy written by John B. Cobb and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Develops a naturalistic postmodern perspective to make constructive proposals about a wide range of topics now in public discussion.
Book Synopsis After the Anthropocene by : Anne Fremaux
Download or read book After the Anthropocene written by Anne Fremaux and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The environmental crisis is the most prominent challenge humanity has ever had to battle with, and humanity is currently failing. The Anthropocene—or so called ‘age of humans’—is indeed a period when the survival of humanity has never been so much at risk. This book locates itself in the field of critical green political theory. Fremaux's analysis of the current environmental crisis calls for us to embrace radical shifts in our modes of being; or, in other words, socially progressive innovations that will be described within the unique framework of "Green Republicanism." In offering a constructive and emancipatory delineation of what could be considered an ecological civilization that is respectful of its natural environment and social differences, this book describes how to shift from an ‘arrogant speciesism’ and materialistic lifestyle to a post-anthropocentric ecological humanism focusing on the ‘good life’ within ecological limits. This new political regime calls for a radical reinvention of our societies, a decentering of the humans within our metaphysical worldview, and a withdrawal of the capitalist technosphere at the benefit of the biosphere. It will require a new economic paradigm that replaces the unsustainable capitalist logic of growth by sustainable degrowth and steady economics. Rooted in ethical thinking and political philosophy, this book seeks to offer a concrete roadmap of how sustainable societies can be fostered.
Download or read book The Far Right Today written by Cas Mudde and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The far right is back with a vengeance. After several decades at the political margins, far-right politics has again taken center stage. Three of the world’s largest democracies – Brazil, India, and the United States – now have a radical right leader, while far-right parties continue to increase their profile and support within Europe. In this timely book, leading global expert on political extremism Cas Mudde provides a concise overview of the fourth wave of postwar far-right politics, exploring its history, ideology, organization, causes, and consequences, as well as the responses available to civil society, party, and state actors to challenge its ideas and influence. What defines this current far-right renaissance, Mudde argues, is its mainstreaming and normalization within the contemporary political landscape. Challenging orthodox thinking on the relationship between conventional and far-right politics, Mudde offers a complex and insightful picture of one of the key political challenges of our time.
Book Synopsis Transforming Human Culture by : Jay Earley
Download or read book Transforming Human Culture written by Jay Earley and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The next step in social evolution, Earley argues, is to take conscious charge of our future by integrating the ground qualities with the emergent qualities so that they can continue to evolve, but in a healthy way.
Book Synopsis United States Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education by : Carl Mirra
Download or read book United States Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education written by Carl Mirra and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2008-03-17 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In light of the United States' "age of terrorism" and the controversial involvement in the war in Iraq, U.S. policies toward diplomatic peace education are coming under increasing scrutiny. This book evaluates the prospects for effective U.S. peace education in the context of post-1945 U.S. foreign policy. The work first documents the disparity between U.S. pronouncements about protecting human rights and the country's systematic erosion of those rights in the international arena. Second, it evaluates the challenges that the war on terrorism poses for peace education and explores the importance of international treaties in upholding security. A final section explores new ways of thinking and relating that are ultimately necessary for the realization of nonviolent peacekeeping efforts. Designed as a resource text for U.S. educators, the text offers concrete proposals for addressing contentious foreign policy issues in the classroom and includes an appendix of primary documents and sample questions for easy use.
Book Synopsis Earth Summit Ethics by : J. Baird Callicott
Download or read book Earth Summit Ethics written by J. Baird Callicott and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-08-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international group of environmental philosophers and educators propose ways universities can produce and promote ecological literacy and environmental ethics.
Book Synopsis Living and Value by : Frederick Ferre
Download or read book Living and Value written by Frederick Ferre and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-06-07 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.
Book Synopsis Process and Difference by : Catherine Keller
Download or read book Process and Difference written by Catherine Keller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The similarities and creative tensions between French-based poststructuralism and Whiteheadian process thought are examined here by leading scholars. Although both approaches are labeled "postmodern," their own proponents often take them to be so dissimilar as to be opposed. Contributors to this book, however, argue that processing these differences of theory at a deeper level may cultivate fertile and innovative modes of reflection. Through their comparisons, contrasts, and hybridizations of process and poststructuralist theories, the contributors variously redefine concepts of divinity and cosmos, advance the interaction between science and religion, and engage the sex/gender and religious ethics of otherness and subjectivity.
Book Synopsis Physics and Whitehead by : Timothy E. Eastman
Download or read book Physics and Whitehead written by Timothy E. Eastman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring discussions and dialogue by prominent scientists and philosophers, this book explores the rich interface of contemporary physics and Whitehead-inspired process thought. The contributors share the conviction that quantum physics not only corroborates many of Whitehead's philosophical theses, but is also illuminated by them. Thus, though differing in perspective or emphasis, the contributions by Geoffrey Chew, David Finkelstein, Henry Stapp and other scientists conceptually dovetail with those of Philip Clayton, Jorge Nobo, Yutaka Tanaka and other process philosophers.
Book Synopsis The End of Modern Medicine by : Laurence Foss
Download or read book The End of Modern Medicine written by Laurence Foss and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The End of Modern Medicine chronicles the work of a small, influential band of medical theorists and clinicians who over the past decade have sought to redress the physical fundamentalism of the biomedical model that shaped their professional training. Laurence Foss challenges the prevailing medical model whereby mind and body are essentially separated, and charts a new "psychobiological" course. Asking fresh questions, raising new possibilities, probing long-established preconceptions, Foss presents a radically reconfigured medical model. This model accounts for the full range of findings in the experimental literature, most notably those surfacing over the past quarter century in psychophysiological studies which show a correlation between psychosocial variables and disease susceptibility that are in line with what more basic sciences tell us about the behavior of material systems and the nature of scientific explanation. Foss also critically analyzes the regulative ideals of today's medical research community and puts modern science itself, from which these ideals derive, under a microscope.
Book Synopsis Religion and Scientific Naturalism by : David Ray Griffin
Download or read book Religion and Scientific Naturalism written by David Ray Griffin and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-05-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Articulates a metaphysical position capable of rendering both science and religious experience simultaneously and mutually intelligible.
Book Synopsis World in Process by : John A. Jungerman
Download or read book World in Process written by John A. Jungerman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how modern physics supports basic claims of process philosophy.
Book Synopsis Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis by : Arran Gare
Download or read book Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis written by Arran Gare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and the Environmental Crisis is the only book to combine cultural theory and environmental philosophy. In it, Arran Gare analyses the conjunction between the environmental crisis, the globalisation of capitalism and the disintegration of the culture of modernity. It explains the paradox of growing concern for the environment and the paltry achievements of environmental movements. Through a critique of the philosophies underlying approaches to the environmental crisis, Arran Gare puts forward his own, controversial theory of a new postmodern world view. This would be the foundation for the environmental movement to succeed. Arran Gare's work will be a vital reading for advanced students of environmental studies, as well as for environmental philosophers and cultural theorists.
Book Synopsis Kazantzakis and God by : Daniel A. Dombrowski
Download or read book Kazantzakis and God written by Daniel A. Dombrowski and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1997-10-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not a stage comedy, but an exploration of Greek writer Nikos Kazantzakis' (1883-1957) view of God, specifically of his attempt to develop a view superior to the traditional one. Finds that he chose Plato's approach over Aristotle and that though his theism is heterodox and controversial, it is a combination of views that grow out of solidly orthodox concerns and sources. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book The Tacit Mode written by Jerry H. Gill and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tacit Mode exposes and explores the central insights in Michael Polanyi's major works. It focuses on his epistemological insights concerning tacit knowing, and explores their ramifications for philosophy, science, art, language, political theory, and religion. The notion of tacit knowledge reconstructs the modern concept of objectivity while avoiding the self-stultifying effects of "deconstructivist" postmodernism and puts Polanyi on the cutting edge of contemporary philosophy.
