Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis
Title | Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis PDF eBook |
Author | David Ray Griffin |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 250 |
Release | 1993-07-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438404921 |
This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely new—one based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership.
United States Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education
Title | United States Foreign Policy and the Prospects for Peace Education PDF eBook |
Author | Carl Mirra |
Publisher | McFarland |
Total Pages | 237 |
Release | 2008-03-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0786433213 |
In light of the United States' "age of terrorism" and the controversial involvement in the war in Iraq, U.S. policies toward diplomatic peace education are coming under increasing scrutiny. This book evaluates the prospects for effective U.S. peace education in the context of post-1945 U.S. foreign policy. The work first documents the disparity between U.S. pronouncements about protecting human rights and the country's systematic erosion of those rights in the international arena. Second, it evaluates the challenges that the war on terrorism poses for peace education and explores the importance of international treaties in upholding security. A final section explores new ways of thinking and relating that are ultimately necessary for the realization of nonviolent peacekeeping efforts. Designed as a resource text for U.S. educators, the text offers concrete proposals for addressing contentious foreign policy issues in the classroom and includes an appendix of primary documents and sample questions for easy use.
Transforming Human Culture
Title | Transforming Human Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Jay Earley |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 382 |
Release | 1997-01-01 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780791433737 |
The next step in social evolution, Earley argues, is to take conscious charge of our future by integrating the ground qualities with the emergent qualities so that they can continue to evolve, but in a healthy way.
Postmodernism and Public Policy
Title | Postmodernism and Public Policy PDF eBook |
Author | John B. Cobb |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 2002-01-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9780791451663 |
Develops a naturalistic postmodern perspective to make constructive proposals about a wide range of topics now in public discussion.
Earth Summit Ethics
Title | Earth Summit Ethics PDF eBook |
Author | J. Baird Callicott |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 268 |
Release | 1996-08-23 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791430545 |
An international group of environmental philosophers and educators propose ways universities can produce and promote ecological literacy and environmental ethics.
Living and Value
Title | Living and Value PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick Ferre |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Total Pages | 388 |
Release | 2001-06-07 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791450598 |
Based on an ecologically inspired wordview, defends ethics against skepticism and irrealism.
Process and Difference
Title | Process and Difference PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Keller |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | 297 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0791488985 |
The similarities and creative tensions between French-based poststructuralism and Whiteheadian process thought are examined here by leading scholars. Although both approaches are labeled "postmodern," their own proponents often take them to be so dissimilar as to be opposed. Contributors to this book, however, argue that processing these differences of theory at a deeper level may cultivate fertile and innovative modes of reflection. Through their comparisons, contrasts, and hybridizations of process and poststructuralist theories, the contributors variously redefine concepts of divinity and cosmos, advance the interaction between science and religion, and engage the sex/gender and religious ethics of otherness and subjectivity.