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Beyond Civilization - Society, Culture, and the Individual in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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Beyond Civilization - Society, Culture, and the Individual in the Age of Globalization (Hardcover)
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For Harry Redner, the phrase "beyond civilization" refers to the
new and unprecedented condition the world is now
entering'specifically, the condition commonly known as
globalization. Redner approaches globalization from the perspective
of history and seeks to interpret it in relation to previous key
stages of human development. His account begins with the Axial Age
(700 300 BC) and proceeds through Modernity (after AD 1500) to the
present global condition. What is globalization doing to
civilization? In answering this question, Redner studies the role
played by capitalism, the state, science and technology. He aims to
show that they have had a catalytic impact on civilization through
their reductive effect on society, culture, and individualism.
However, Redner is not content to diagnose the ills of
civilization; he also suggests how they might be ameliorated by
cultural conservation. Above all, it is to the problem of decline
in the higher forms of literacy that he addresses himself, for it
is on the culture of the book that previous civilizations were
founded. This study will be of interest to sociologists,
historians, and social and political theorists. Its style makes it
accessible also to general readers, interested in civilization
past, present, and future.
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