Politics, Ethics and Culture in Our Time
Global capitalism is effecting changes in human life as momentous as those that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, the Axial Age (700-300 BC), and the modern era post-1500, when industrial capitalism, state power, and science reshaped the civilized world. The transformation is paradoxical, ho...
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| description | Global capitalism is effecting changes in human life as momentous as those that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, the Axial Age (700-300 BC), and the modern era post-1500, when industrial capitalism, state power, and science reshaped the civilized world. The transformation is paradoxical, however. Science and technology ensure material progress but the market promotes cultural obsolescence and erodes belief in the Enlightenment ideals that inspired the quest for progress. In Western democracies, liberty and equality are proving irreconcilable, citizens becoming demoralized, fraternity fractured; meanwhile despotic Eurasian states are recycling old faiths and concocting neo-imperialist ideologies. These contradictions must be confronted if the cultural values that sustain civilized life are to be conserved. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1588722025-04-24T04:14:37Z Politics, Ethics and Culture in Our Time Redner, Harry bureaucratic nation-state consumer culture contemporary society deculturalization demoralization despotic capitalism forces of modernity globalization liberal democracy paradox of progress Global capitalism is effecting changes in human life as momentous as those that occurred during the Neolithic Revolution, the Axial Age (700-300 BC), and the modern era post-1500, when industrial capitalism, state power, and science reshaped the civilized world. The transformation is paradoxical, however. Science and technology ensure material progress but the market promotes cultural obsolescence and erodes belief in the Enlightenment ideals that inspired the quest for progress. In Western democracies, liberty and equality are proving irreconcilable, citizens becoming demoralized, fraternity fractured; meanwhile despotic Eurasian states are recycling old faiths and concocting neo-imperialist ideologies. These contradictions must be confronted if the cultural values that sustain civilized life are to be conserved. 2025-04-24T04:14:36Z 2025-04-24T04:14:36Z 2025-04-23T12:52:51Z 2023 book ONIX_20250423_9789004538177_25 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/101125 9789004538177 9789004538160 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/158872 eng Social and Critical Theory open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/101125/1/9789004538177.pdf Brill 10.1163/9789004538177 10.1163/9789004538177 33fecb33-e7c4-4fc8-96b0-7ba2fccafba9 9789004538177 9789004538160 open access |
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