For the first time in history we humans are experiencing a wide
range of increasing problems that threaten us with extinction, if
not today or tomorrow then the day after tomorrow. Yet we have the
capacity-with the aid of a broad approach to the scientific method
that builds on Mills's concept of "the sociological imagination"-to
confront those problems ever more effectively. Armageddon or
Evolution? carries forward the broad scientific approach that
Phillips developed in four previous books: "Beyond Sociology's
Tower of Babel" (2001), "Toward a Sociological Imagination" (2002,
edited), "The Invisible Crisis of Contemporary Society" (2007, with
Louis Johnston), and "Understanding Terrorism" (2007, edited).
Excerpts from these books can be found on
www.sociological-imagination.org. Everyone-academics and
nonacademics alike-can learn to use that scientific method in
everyday life, following the "East-West" and "deep dialogue"
strategies Phillips describes. These are procedures for achieving
nothing less than conscious evolution. They require us to uncover
our fundamental assumptions along with their contradictions and
move toward alternative assumptions that promise to resolve those
contradictions. And they also require us to open up to the full
range of knowledge-from the social sciences, philosophy, literature
and beyond-invoked by Mills and illustrated in this book.
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