Civilization S Crisis

Author : Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745330541

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A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Pdf

It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilization. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system. Most accounts of our contemporary global crises such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, focus on one area, or another, to the exclusion of others. Nafeez Ahmed argues that the unwillingness of experts to look outside their specialisations explains why there is so much disagreement and misunderstanding about particular crises. This book attempts to investigate all of these crises, not as isolated events, but as trends and processes that belong to a single global system. We are therefore not dealing with a "clash of civilizations," as Huntington argued. Rather, we are dealing with a fundamental crisis of civilization itself. This book provides a stark warning of the consequences of failing to take a broad view of the problems facing the world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : OCLC:470437108

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Civilization in Crisis: Human Prospects in a Changing World by Anonim Pdf

Author : Avery John Scales
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789813222472

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Civilization's Crisis: A Set Of Linked Challenges by Avery John Scales Pdf

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book. Contents: Economics, Ethics and EcologyThreats to the Environment and Climate ChangeGrowing Population, Vanishing ResourcesThe Global Food and Refugee CrisisIntolerable Economic InequalityThe Threat of Nuclear WarFacing a Set of Linked ProblemsOutlawing WarThe Evolution of CooperationEducation for PeaceThe Future of International LawThe Choice is Ours to Make Readership: Readers interested in an overview of world issues and a brief history of their origins.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8124610290

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Modern Civilization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1849647917

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A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization and how to Save it by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed Pdf

Argues that the many world crises, including the financial meltdown, climate change and terrorism, are connected problems of a failing global system.

Author : Ali A. Allawi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 0300139314

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The Crisis of Islamic Civilization by Ali A. Allawi Pdf

Islam as a religion is central to the lives of over a billion people, but its outer expression as a distinctive civilization has been undergoing a monumental crisis. Buffeted by powerful adverse currents, Islamic civilization today is a shadow of its former self. The most disturbing and possibly fatal of these currents—the imperial expansion of the West into Muslim lands and the blast of modernity that accompanied it—are now compounded by a third giant wave, globalization. These forces have increasingly tested Islam and Islamic civilization for validity, adaptability, and the ability to hold on to the loyalty of Muslims, says Ali A. Allawi in his provocative new book. While the faith has proved resilient in the face of these challenges, other aspects of Islamic civilization have atrophied or died, Allawi contends, and Islamic civilization is now undergoing its last crisis. The book explores how Islamic civilization began to unravel under colonial rule, as its institutions, laws, and economies were often replaced by inadequate modern equivalents. Allawi also examines the backlash expressed through the increasing religiosity of Muslim societies and the spectacular rise of political Islam and its terrorist offshoots. Assessing the status of each of the building blocks of Islamic civilization, the author concludes that Islamic civilization cannot survive without the vital spirituality that underpinned it in the past. He identifies a key set of principles for moving forward, principles that will surprise some and anger others, yet clearly must be considered.

Author : S. C. Malik
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 8170172551

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Modern Civilization by S. C. Malik Pdf

The Crisis Of The Age Inheres In This, That Notwithstanding The Century S Mind-Boggling Disasters, It Persists In Subscribing To Propositions Which Have Logically Led To The Atomization Of The Whole Cloth Of Human Experiencing, And Being. Great Indeed Is The Value, Which Is Placed On The Procedure Of Analytic Dismemberment. While The Method Has Certainly Been Result Producing, Materially, In Its Wake It Has Brought Immense Suffering- Both Physical And Spiritual. The Price Paid For A Lopsided Advance Is Thirty Major Wars With Their Toll Of One Hundred And Thirty Million Lives, And The Irreparable Destruction Of The Natural Environment. The Time Cries For A Reappraisal Of The Basic Paradigms Of Human Existence, But The Hegemony Of Well-Entrenched Vested Interests Material Or Intellectual Would Seem To Preclude This. The Advanced Among The Mankind Of The Day Become Suicidally Specialized. For, If The Mechanical Model Of Thought Has Been Of Advantage In Man S Preceding Unfolding, The Same, What May Be Called The Survival Paradigm,, Now Creates Dangerous Dualities, Binary Oppositions (You-Me, Body-Mind, East-West, Etc.) . The Model Has Outlived Its Usefulness Merely Enforcing Dormancy On A Major Part Of The Human Brain. It Behoves Mankind To Choose Wisely Right Now Since Parallel To The Socio-Economic, Scientific And Technological Revolutions There Has Got To Be The Overdue Radical Psychic Transformation. The First Step Towards Clearing The Fateful Crisis Would Therefore Be To Be Aware, And End The Hold Of The Linear, Causal, Mechanical Thought Orientation Over The Intellectual Culture Of The Times. Delving Deep Into The Epistemological-Cum-Ontological Causation Of The Emergency Confronting The Being And Becoming Of Man, The Author Of This Important Work Provokes The Thoughtful Lay Reader To A Serious Engagement With His Or Her Self.

Author : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : TAN Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781505108200

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The Crisis Of Civilization by Hilaire Belloc Pdf

Here the great Belloc shows that ever since the disaster of the Protestant Reformation, Western civilization (which was formed by the Catholic Faith) has been coming apart--since Calvinism opened the door to usury, unbridled competition, the domination of the mind by money, and ultimately the return of slavery. Belloc says our 2 choices are a return to Catholicism or chaos! Essential for anyone who would understand our world today!

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0199486735

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The Crises of Civilization by Anonim Pdf

Author : John Avery
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 981322245X

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Civilization's Crisis by John Avery Pdf

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book.

Author : Klaas Van Egmond
Publisher : Springer
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137382702

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Sustainable Civilization by Klaas Van Egmond Pdf

In order to be sustainable, a civilization must maintain the balance between 'mind' and 'matter' and between the egocentric 'I' and 'the others'. This book investigates how new institutional arrangements in politics, economy and finance can resolve the current crisis of social values by restoring this delicate balance between opposing forces.

Author : Marek J. Celinski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-29
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 1536107743

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Crisis and Renewal of Civilizations by Marek J. Celinski Pdf

This book expands on the primary assumption that the human brain is a sense and purpose producing organ; we use it to understand and guide us through chaotic realities in order to impact the course of events and ourselves. Humanity's future will be a direct result of what our brains permit us to do, and this is the reason why understanding how the brain functions is so important to promote its best utilisation. We need to learn how to better benefit from the human brain's innate tendency to establish new connections, which could promote flights of creativity and imagination. A unique feature of the human brain is that it is both diversified and united, allowing for a variety of sensory and expressive functions and, at the same time, for cohesive and purposeful behavior. Our mind's cohesiveness breaks down in the brain's pathological conditions, or in conditions of severe stress and deprivation. Examples of crisis observed throughout history can be understood as a projection by our collective mind of pathological states on reality. Put simply, the human mind is unable to make sense of circumstances to assure stability and continuity. It is obvious that we struggle both to separate and unify ourselves, and that every war or social disruption ultimately ends in peace and the temporary restoration of order and stability.

Author : David R. Montgomery
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520933163

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Dirt by David R. Montgomery Pdf

Dirt, soil, call it what you want—it's everywhere we go. It is the root of our existence, supporting our feet, our farms, our cities. This fascinating yet disquieting book finds, however, that we are running out of dirt, and it's no laughing matter. An engaging natural and cultural history of soil that sweeps from ancient civilizations to modern times, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations explores the compelling idea that we are—and have long been—using up Earth's soil. Once bare of protective vegetation and exposed to wind and rain, cultivated soils erode bit by bit, slowly enough to be ignored in a single lifetime but fast enough over centuries to limit the lifespan of civilizations. A rich mix of history, archaeology and geology, Dirt traces the role of soil use and abuse in the history of Mesopotamia, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, China, European colonialism, Central America, and the American push westward. We see how soil has shaped us and we have shaped soil—as society after society has risen, prospered, and plowed through a natural endowment of fertile dirt. David R. Montgomery sees in the recent rise of organic and no-till farming the hope for a new agricultural revolution that might help us avoid the fate of previous civilizations.

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0900588500

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The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon Pdf

It is no longer news that the Western world is in a crisis, a crisis that has spread far beyond its point of origin and become global in nature. In 1927, René Guénon responded to this crisis with the closest thing he ever wrote to a manifesto and 'call-to-action'. The Crisis of the Modern World was his most direct and complete application of traditional metaphysical principles-particularly that of the 'age of darkness' preceding the end of the present world-to social criticism, surpassed only by The Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, his magnum opus. In the present work Guénon ruthlessly exposes the 'Western deviation': its loss of tradition, its exaltation of action over knowledge, its rampant individualism and general social chaos. His response to these conditions was not 'activist', however, but purely intellectual, envisioning the coming together of Western intellectual leaders capable under favorable circumstances of returning the West to its traditional roots, most likely via the Catholic Church, or, under less favorable ones, of at least preserving the 'seeds' of Tradition for the time to come.

Author : International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. International Conference
Publisher : Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 0981933025

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Civilization in Crisis by International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations. International Conference Pdf

This book contains the Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations (its 39th International Conference) which took place at Kalamazoo, Michigan, USA from June 3-7, 2009. The conference theme was Civilization in Crisis.