Politics, Ethics and Culture in Our Time : : A Post-Civilizational Perspective.
"We are now undergoing a historic transformation in the destiny of mankind that is in many ways as decisive as any of those in the historic past, perhaps as far back as the Neolithic Revolution. For the very first time in history mankind has come together in a global society that some have call...
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| Superior document: | Social and Critical Theory |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boston : : BRILL,, 2022. ©2023. |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social and Critical Theory
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (306 pages) |
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| Summary: | "We are now undergoing a historic transformation in the destiny of mankind that is in many ways as decisive as any of those in the historic past, perhaps as far back as the Neolithic Revolution. For the very first time in history mankind has come together in a global society that some have called a technological civilization. It is certainly thanks to technology that this unification of previously separated human groups - whether they be tribes, nations or civilizations - has been made possible. Will this result in a truly global civilization? This is still a moot point, which it will be our concern to investigate. But undeniably the conditions of human living have become more alike all over the globe, and these are certainly utterly unlike those of any of the previous civilizations. In short, we are entering a new age in the development of the whole of humanity"-- |
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| ISBN: | 9789004538177 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |