Ariadne's Thread - The Search for New Modes of Thinking (Hardcover, 1989 ed.)

Preface - PART I: Nature's Constraints: 'What are the Limits to Growth?' - The Future: A Search for Values - Energy and Exponentials - The Economics of Spaceship Earth - Our Environmental Charge Account Comes Due - PART II: The Human Animal: 'What is Human Nature?' - The Emergence of Human Nature - The Cultural Spectrum - Religion and Worldviews - On Acquiring a Worldview - PART III: Possessive Individualism: 'Whence Comes This Western Worldview?' - From God to Man: Origins of the Western Worldview - The Cult of Efficiency - Alienation - The Loss of the Sacred - PART IV: New Modes of Thinking: 'Where Do We Begin?' - Rethinking Economics - Defusing the Global Powder Keg - Politics: Worldviews in Action - Nuclear 'Defence' - or Conflict Resolution? - Humankind at the Crossroads - Notes - Index

General

Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 1989
First published:	1989
Authors:	Mary E. Clark
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 46mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	584
Edition:	1989 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-312-01580-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > General
LSN:	0-312-01580-1
Barcode:	9780312015800

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