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The End of Modernity
- What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us
Engelsk Hardback
The End of Modernity
- What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us
Engelsk Hardback

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Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis--what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards.In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world''s insatiable need for technologically-driven economic progress is unsustainable, and potentially destructive of the planet and its socio-economic systems. The new landscape this creates--socially, politically, economically, intellectually--is explored through an interdisciplinary approach, providing a wide-ranging assessment of the collapse of modernity and the challenges it poses us. Sim calls for a radical alteration in our world view and for purposeful changes both to our economic and intellectual life: we need to jettison the free market, rein in conspicuous consumption, reinvigorate public service, and develop talents other than the entrepreneurial if we are to reconstruct our society satisfactorily.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
232
ISBN-13:
9780748640355
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0748640355
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 maj 2010
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
162mm
Højde:
223mm
Forlag:
Edinburgh University Press
Oplagsdato:
7 maj 2010
Forfatter(e):
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