The future of capitalism and democracy / Peter Baofu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Baofu, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capitalism--Forecasting.

Capitalism.

Democracy--Forecasting.

Democracy.

Economic forecasting.

Social prediction.

Twenty-first century--Forecasts.

Twenty-first century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 673 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2002]

Contents:

Chapter 1 Globality, and the Old Hegemony of Capitalism and Democracy 1

1.1. Globality by Other Names 2

1.2. Globality as the Latest Phase of Postmodernity 3

1.3. The Metamorphosis of Violence in History 6

1.4. The Need of Theoretical Holism 11

1.5. The Structure of the Project 15

Part I Cognition, Emotions, and Behavior

Chapter 2 Global Rationality and Its Dogmatic Assumptions 25

2.1. The Dogmas of Global Rationality 26

2.2. The Obsolescence of Homo Economicus 28

2.3. The Bias of Non-Violent Conflict Management Psychology 32

2.4. The Limits of Cognitive Impartiality 37

2.5. The Illusion of Emotional Neutrality 53

2.6. The Myth of Human Biological Equality 65

Part II Culture

Chapter 3 Global Culture and Its Essential Dilemmas 83

3.1. Culture and Anti-Culture 83

3.2. Liberating Yet Deconstructive 85

3.3. Diffusive Yet Hegemonic 87

3.4. Unto Human Extinction and Post-Humanity 88

Chapter 4 Global Morality and Its Immoral Face 99

4.1. Immorality within Morality 100

4.2. Christian Morality 103

4.3. The Morality of American Exceptionalism 112

4.4. Liberal Morality 122

4.5. The Morality of Human Nature 142

4.6. Immorality in the Name of Morality 154

Part III Institutions

Chapter 5 Global Wealth and Its Competing Voices 161

5.1. The Joy of Wealth, and the Sorrow of Distribution 162

5.2. The Voice of the Upper 167

5.3. The Voice of the Middle 176

5.4. The Voice of the Lower 180

5.5. Wealth for Whom? And Progress for What? 185

Chapter 6 Global Governance and Its Conflicting Nature 195

6.1. The Authority of Governance, and the Agony of Justice 195

6.2. The Varieties of Meta-Institutional Grounding 198

6.3. The Diversity of Institutional Frameworks 203

6.4. Governance for Whom? And Justice for What? 227

Part IV Organizations

Chapter 7 Global Civil Society and Its Ambivalent Future 235

7.1. The Promise of Civil Society, and the Politics of NGO's 236

7.2. The Coming E-Topia 241

7.3. E-Lifeform and E-Civic Virtues 247

7.4. Quaternary Social Relations and E-Civic Virtues 251

7.5. E-Civic Virtues and International Organizations 254

7.6. NGO's for Whom? And Civic Society for What? 269

Part V Structure

Chapter 8 Global Stratification and Its New Sameness 277

8.1. The Longevity of Stratification 277

8.2. New Players with Old Dreams 278

8.3. New Forms with Old Shadows 291

8.4. New Causes with Old Effects 299

8.5. All the World as a Stage for Stratification 308

Part VI Systems

Chapter 9 Global Trends and Their Double Games 315

9.1. The Multiple Forms of Violence 316

9.2. Soft Rationality and the Causes of War and Peace 317

9.2.1. An Enduring Battle Between Two Military Doctrines 318

9.2.2. The Fad of Soft Rationality 319

9.2.3. The Contingent Fall of Total Warfare 321

9.2.4. The Contingent Rise of Non-Total Warfare 325

9.2.5. The Hi-Tech Forms of Warfare and Violence 329

9.3. Aesthetic Sublimity and Virtual Psychosis 335

9.3.1. Three Moments of the Sublime 336

9.3.2. The Historically Contingent Expressions of the Sublime 336

9.3.3. The Pathological Sides of the Sublime 344

9.4. Climatology, Religion, and the Politics of the Environment 350

9.4.1. The Environmental Divide 351

9.4.2. Doctor Spin of Climatology 352

9.4.3. The Quarrelsome Marriage between Faith and the Environment 355

9.5. Global Societal Forms and Historic Hegemony 361

9.5.1. In the Short Run: Three Views of the Post-Cold War World 361

9.5.2. In the Medium-Run: Four Images of the Future Global Order in the Post-Post-Cold War Era and Beyond 363

9.5.3. In the Long Run: An Epic of the Cyclical Progression of Hegemony for Post-Humans in Multiverses 365

9.6. Human Solace and the Myth of Violence 383

Part VII Cosmos

Chapter 10 Post-Global Trends and The Cyclical Progression of Hegemony in Multiverses 397

10.1. From Global to Post-Global Trends 398

10.2. The Driving Technologies and Economic Processes in Future Change 399

10.2.1. The Driving Technologies in the Medium Future 399

10.2.2. The Driving Economies in the More Distant Future 404

10.3. The New Players and Values in Post-Capitalism 406

10.3.1. The Need of a Post-Autistic Economics 406

10.3.2. The Faulted Logic of Free Market 406

10.3.3. The Role of New Players and Their Transvaluations 422

10.3.4. The Role of IT 430

10.4. The New Players and Values in Post-Democracy 437

10.4.1. The Dogmatic Origins of a Self-Evident Truth 437

10.4.2. The Faulted Logic of Equality 440

10.4.3. The Role of Post-Humans and Their Transvaluations 446

10.4.4. The Next Frontier: Deep Space in Multiverses 455

10.5. The Trinity of After-Postmodernity, and the Future of Post-Human Civilization 472

10.5.1. Free-Spirited After-Postmodernity 473

10.5.2. Post-Capitalist After-Postmodernity 475

10.5.3. Hegemonic After-Postmodernity 477

Chapter 11 Post-Globality, and the New Hegemony of Post-Capitalism and Post-Democracy 507

11.1. Prophesy of Post-Humanity as Farewell to Humanity 508

11.2. Ontological Constructs, and the Limits of Knowledge 509

11.3. Everyday Prejudices, and the Poverty of Understanding 512.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [519]-571) and index.

ISBN:

0761823875

OCLC:

50243089