The End of Modernity : What the Financial and Environmental Crisis is Really Telling Us.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
Cover -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Part I The End of Modernity? The Cultural Dimension -- 1 Introduction: The End of Modernity -- 2 Modernity: Promise and Reality -- 3 Beyond Postmodernity -- Part II The End of Modernity? The Economic Dimension -- 4 Marx was Right, But . . . -- 5 Diagnosing the Market: Fundamentalism as Cure, Fundamentalism as Disease -- 6 Forget Friedman -- Part III Beyond Modernity -- 7 Learning from the Arts: Life After Modernism -- 8 Politics After Modernity -- 9 Conclusion: A Post- Progress World -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
How the current paradigm of technologically driven economic progress could destroy the planet and its socio-economic systems.
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Civilization, Modern -- 21st century. Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009. Climatic changes -- Environmental aspects.