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The empathic civilization : the race to global consciousness in a world in crisis / Jeremy Rifkin.
LIBRA BJ1475 .R54 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rifkin, Jeremy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Empathy.
- Conduct of life.
- Civilization, Modern--21st century--Forecasting.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Twenty-first century--Forecasts.
- Twenty-first century.
- Social prediction.
- Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- x, 674 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, [2009]
- Contents:
- The hidden paradox of human history
- The new view of human nature
- A sentient interpretation of biological evolution
- Becoming human
- Rethinking the meaning of the human journey
- The ancient theological brain and patriarchal economy
- Cosmopolitan Rome and the rise of urban Christianity
- The soft industrial revolution of the late medieval era and the birth of humanism
- Ideological thinking in a modern market economy
- Psychological consciousness in a postmodern existential world
- The climb to global peak empathy
- The planetary entropic abyss
- The emerging era of distributed capitalism
- The theatrical self in an improvisational society
- Biosphere consciousness in a climax economy.
- Local Notes:
- Gift of Mr. & Mrs. Sheldon Hackney.
- ISBN:
- 9781585427659
- 1585427659
- OCLC:
- 426803865
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