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A World Without Meaning - The Crisis of Meaning in International Politics (Paperback)
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A World Without Meaning - The Crisis of Meaning in International Politics (Paperback)
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Political scientist Laidi grapples with the claim that the end of
communism and the rise of globalized market capitalism have
destroyed a rational way of thinking about the world that goes back
to the Enlightenment. Today, he says, we live in a postmodern world
in which meaning systems have ceased to exist. To the Marxist,
however, this is a wilful mystification of the reality of
capitalism, while to the ethnic nationalist it is a heaven-sent
opportunity to preach the religion of national oppression.
Professor Laidi believes that these are both misguided attempts to
revert back to discredited old models of thought whose shelf-life,
he says, will be even shorter in the future than it has been in the
past. (Kirkus UK)
In this provocative and incisive book, Zaki Laidi argues that as
our world becomes ever larger, our ability to find meaning in it
diminishes. With the end of communism came the end of the intimate
alliance between power and ideology. No power in our globalised
world can any longer claim to provide meaning. In despair we look
back to old models (religious traditions, nationalism, ethnicity)
to give us a sense of identity. But in a globalised world in a
permanent state of flux, just how effective are these old
certainties?
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