The Crises Of Civilization

Author : Dipesh Chakrabarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199096022

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The Crises of Civilization by Dipesh Chakrabarty Pdf

The world created by the legacies of empire and colonialism now confronts some deep crises of civility, precipitated by globalization and climate change. In this volume, Dipesh Chakrabarty examines these distinct—but interrelated—issues side by side. Varied ideas of civilization and humanism have shaped notions of a global humanity in the lingering twilight of the European empires. Detailing these ideas, in the section titled ‘Global Worlds’, Chakrabarty outlines the conflicts and connections that arise from global encounters in our postcolonial age. The second section, ‘The Planetary Human’, on the other hand, explores the significance of planetary climate change for humanistic and postcolonial thought. Chakrabarty argues that such change demands not only critiques of capitalism and inequality, but also new thinking about the human species as a whole—our patterns of justice, writing of history, and relationship with nature in the age of the Anthropocene. The global is human-centric in construction; the planetary involves many other actors and thus includes the thorny question of how we go beyond the anthropocentric to discuss and conceptualize the agency of the non-human.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0199486735

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The Crises of Civilization by Anonim Pdf

Author : Stanton Arthur Coblentz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105080583219

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Ten Crises in Civilization by Stanton Arthur Coblentz Pdf

In his analysis of man's moral nature and its reaction to crises throughout history, the author has selected ten crises of a cataclysmic nature which have altered or threatened the course of history. Among the events depicted are the Persian invasions of Greece, Hannibal's campaigns against Rome, the destruction of Rome by barbarian hordes, and the French Revolution.

Author : Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Publisher : Pluto Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Oswaldo de Rivero B.
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 1856499499

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The Myth of Development by Oswaldo de Rivero B. Pdf

In order to prevent increasing social and political disorders, the author argues that many countries with primary production and explosive urban growth will have to abandon dreams of development to adopt a policy of national survival based on the search for water, food, and energy security - and the stabilization of their populations."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Avery John Scales
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Hilaire Belloc
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1973-02-24
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X004699616

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The Crisis of Civilization by Hilaire Belloc Pdf

Author : René Guénon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Civilization
ISBN : LCCN:43002297

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The Crisis of the Modern World by René Guénon Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 40,5 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 : John Avery
Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Company
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 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 : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Culture
ISBN : 6000013248

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The Crisis of Our Age by Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin Pdf

Author : S. C. Malik
Publisher : Abhinav Publications
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,7 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 : Andrew Targowski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Civilization
ISBN : 1634634233

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The Limits of Civilization by Andrew Targowski Pdf

This book has been inspired by Dennis Meadows's (et al) The Limits to Growth, published 41 years ago. It forewarned the general public about the exhaustion of strategic resources of the planet as known at that time, unless economic and population expansions were halted. This resulted in the world becoming aware of the crisis of civilisation. Measures were taken to reduce the consumption of the strategic resources, including the promotion of recycling resources used. Efforts were made internationally to introduce the practice of climate and environmental protection, to little avail. The present book has a wider scope of analysis and synthesis, and even gloomier conclusions than those found in the two pioneering books. This author has arrived at the following conclusions: The plight of civilisation is doomed by the sun expiring within 4.5 billion years. It is also determined by the exhaustion of the known and the potential resources of the small planet Earth around the year 5,000. The future of civilisation (considered in the time frame imaginable to man) is swayed by its current crisis, which results from the Triangle of Civilization Death (the combination of the bombs of population, ecology and depletion of strategic resources), which will be felt around 2050; The future of civilisation is dependent on its capability of entering the phase of Wise and Universal Civilisation in the years to come. This is conditioned upon the abandonment of the known socio-political and economic systems: capitalism, socialism, communism and their hybrids. These systems are based on the constant growth of population and the economy, which is unsustainable any longer; Democratic Ecologism ought to be the new system, securing a wise and sustainable functioning of civilisation; it would prioritise the ecosystem in the choices made by man and societies. What must be observed, too, is tolerance based on Spirituality 2.0. It is based on the Decalogue of Complementary Values derived from the main religions 1.0, which the world is now practicing. Is it possible to introduce these solutions to practical life? This is up to people becoming wiser. Alas, so far people do not even know what wisdom is since wisdom is not taught at school or college. And without wisdom, no civilisation stands any chance of success in the universe of systemic chaos.

Author : Stephen Gill
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139503648

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Global Crises and the Crisis of Global Leadership by Stephen Gill Pdf

This groundbreaking collection on global leadership features innovative and critical perspectives by scholars from international relations, political economy, medicine, law and philosophy, from North and South. The book's novel theorization of global leadership is situated historically within the classics of modern political theory and sociology, relating it to the crisis of global capitalism today. Contributors reflect on the multiple political, economic, social, ecological and ethical crises that constitute our current global predicament. The book suggests that there is an overarching condition of global organic crisis, which shapes the political and organizational responses of the dominant global leadership and of various subaltern forces. Contributors argue that to meaningfully address the challenges of the global crisis will require far more effective, inclusive and legitimate forms of global leadership and global governance than have characterized the neoliberal era.