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Prometheus revisited : the quest for global justice in the twenty-first century / Arthur Mitzman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mitzman, Arthur, 1931-2021.
- Series:
- Critical perspectives on modern culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social justice.
- Globalization.
- Nationalism.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 317 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2003]
- Contents:
- User's Manual for Prometheus Revisited: Enlarging the Globalization Debate xi
- Preface: The Double Wall before the Future xv
- Introduction: The Other Prometheus 1
- Shelley's Romantic Prometheanism
- The Dual Character of Promethean Modernity
- Part I. The Rise and Decline of the Modern Prometheus 37
- Chapter 1 The Nationalist Face of Prometheus 39
- Strategies of Liberal Capitalism
- Illusions of Nationalism
- Components of the Nationalist Apocalypse
- Chapter 2 Socialism, the Welfare State, and the Heritage of the Left: Solutions Swallowed Up by the Problem 63
- Promethean Modernity and Scientific Enlightenment
- Origins of the Modern Left
- From Arcadian Dreams to Socialist Prometheanism
- Anatomy of Defeat
- Downsizing, the "End of Work," and Job Export
- Neoliberalism, Social Dumping, and the Demise of Homo faber
- The Twilight of the European Left
- Chapter 3 Consumer Paradise: Another Failed Theodicy 91
- The Consumer as Promethean Hero
- Critics of Consumption
- Consumer Society as Carnival
- Carnivalesque Transgression or Social Integration?
- Oil, Growth, and Unsustainability
- Part II. Prometheus Redeemed 119
- Chapter 4 Theoretical Interlude: The Question of Needs and Nature 121
- Ideals of Consumption and Production
- Psycho-anthropological Summary
- Schachtel's Theory
- Chapter 5 The Gathering Global Revolt against Corporate Capitalism 153
- Movements of Resistance
- The French Case
- Seattle and the Emergence of a New International Opposition
- The Significance of the New Social Movements
- Chapter 6 Another World Is Possible 202
- Prometheus or Pandora?
- Sustainable Democracies in Noncapitalist Global Economy
- The Historical Foundations of Social Justice
- Conclusion: Against Despair 233
- Postscript: Notes from a Hijacked Planet 241.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-305) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1558493891
- 1558493905
- OCLC:
- 50583684
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