The Future of Human Civilization, Volume 1

Baofu, Peter

ISBN 10: 0773479457 / ISBN 13: 9780773479456

Verlag: Edwin Mellen Press, 1999

Beschreibung

1999 hardcover published without jacket/ex-library with usual markings/wear & sunning on the cover/clean & unmarked text. 396 p.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1644167740573

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: The Future of Human Civilization, Volume 1
• Verlag: Edwin Mellen Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0773479457
• ISBN-13: 9780773479456
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No Jacket

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Inhaltsangabe

Drawing on a background in philosophy and the social sciences, Baofu argues that science undermines not only the values of premodern society, as most everyone agrees, but also modern and now postmodern values and beliefs, including those of science itself. Taking civilization to mean western technology and its society, but strongly considering its adoption in non-western parts of the world, he predicts that the undermining he sees, when carried to its logical conclusion, will yield a post-human consciousness after postmodernity. The pivot, he says, will be when people realize that humans are nothing special. His account manages to fill two volumes by being double spaced. The table of content indicates that they are numbered consecutively and indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Reseña del editor

This text focuses on why the global spread of formal rationality contributes to a critical spirit which undermines human values and beliefs, be they ancient, medieval, modern and now postmodern. This is so in special relation to the model of the seven major dimensions of human existence: the True (knowledge), the Holy (religion), the Good (morals), the Just (justice), the Everyday (consumeristic culture), the Technological (technophilic culture), and the Beautiful (arts and literature). This not only has happened in the Eastern world but is spreading to the civilizations of the non-West as well. When carried to its logical conclusion, this undermining will yield what the author refers to as the post-human consciousness after postmodernity, in that humans are nothing in the end, to be someday superseded by post-humans.