Screen LibraryBeyond civilization to post-civilization：conceiving a better model of life settlement to supersede civilization
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Peter Lang,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2006. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | 203 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
082048170X (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780820481708 (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | K103 |
| CLC: | K103 |
| Call Number: | K103/B221 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-192) and index. Introduction : from barbarity to civilization -- The definition of a contested idea -- The civilizational paradox -- The theoretical debate -- The structure of existential dialectics -- Methodological holism -- The outline of the project -- Previous books, book title, and neologisms -- Culture -- The rationalizing process -- Reason and unreason -- The trinity of pre-modernity -- The rise of linear-centric and cyclical-centric civilizations in pre-modernity -- The dominance of linear-centric civilization in modernity -- The crisis of linear-centric civilization in postmodernity -- The rise of post-civilization in after-postmodernity -- Previous books, book title, and neologisms -- Society -- The pacifying process -- Peace and war -- The structural process of social differentiation -- The institutional process of social rationalization -- The organizational process of centralization -- The systematic process of integration -- The recurrence of physical violence -- Nature -- The stewardizing process -- Stewardship and reverence -- The stewardship of creation in linear-centric civilization -- The covenant with nature in cyclical-centric civilization -- The dilemmas of man-nature relationship -- The mind -- The subliming process -- Self-control and spontaneity -- The linear-centric subliming process -- The cyclical-centric subliming process -- Neurosis and the culture of self-control -- Conclusion : from civilization to post-civilization -- Civilization and post-civilization -- The false dichotomy of civilization and barbarity -- The future of post-civilization unto the post-human age. |