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Who Are We Now? - Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney (Paperback, New edition)
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Who Are We Now? - Christian Humanism and the Global Market from Hegel to Heaney (Paperback, New edition)
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Along with the spectacular collapse in 1989 of the perspectives
imposed by the Cold War, the false certainties of the national and
imperial age which shaped our collective and individual identity
fell away as well. As we try to regroup and redefine ourselves and
our social bonds, we must take into account two seemingly
contradictory forces: the trend toward diversity and pluralism, on
the one hand, and the pull toward ever greater unification, on the
other. In this book, Nicholas Boyle offers ten studies of the
implications of the increasingly integrated world economic
structure for our sense of political, cultural, and personal
identity. He argues for the deep interconnectedness of politics,
religion, philosophy, and literature and their shared
inseparability from the economic base. In the process, he uses
philosophical and literary ideas to establish systematic grounds
for optimism about an emerging supra-national order, aiming to
restore the possibility of "grand narrative" to our collective past
and future. However, his exploration of the global mind does not
ignore the many haunting personal questions raised by the upheaval
of the 90s: Are we more than consumers and producers? To what
extent do our nationhood, our gender, our religious and cultural
affiliations still define us? Is a Christian perspective viable in
such a secular world? Can literature and philosophy make sense of
individual lives? What role will the intellectual class play? Boyle
takes a close look at Germany and Britain, their differences and
growing similarity. He discusses, among others, Thatcher, Fukuyama,
Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Seamus Heaney. Boyle
asserts that as the world becomes less divided but more disparate,
and its order less draconian but more precarious, choosing the
paths most likely to lead to justice and peace will reform our
shattered sense of identity.
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