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From the Labyrinth of the World to the Paradise of the Heart - Science and Humanism in UNESCO's Approach to Globalization (Hardcover)
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From the Labyrinth of the World to the Paradise of the Heart - Science and Humanism in UNESCO's Approach to Globalization (Hardcover)
Series: Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
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While there is ever-growing literature on the economic, cultural,
and political aspects of globalization, there are no critical,
up-to-date studies on its philosophical and ideological
underpinnings. Vincenzo Pavone fills this gap in the literature by
analyzing one of the most interesting actors operating on a global
scale: the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO). By discussing the relation between
scientific humanism and the development of UNESCO, the author
studies the relationship between UNESCO and the changes which have
occurred in its self-perception, its identity, and its vision of
globalization. The first part of the book discusses the emergence
of scientific humanism among thinkers such as Bacon, Comenius, and
the Puritan reformers, and goes on to detail its subsequent
connection with the religious reformation proposed by positivists
such as Saint-Simon, Comte, and Renan. Pavone also assesses the
influence of both 17th and 19th century scientific humanism on the
ideas of Julian Huxley, the founding father of modern scientific
humanism and the first Director of UNESCO. In its second part,
Pavone outlines and evaluates the role played by scientific
humanism in the history of UNESCO by inspiring a conception of it
as a truly global organization-a conception applicable to the first
decade of its existence and revived after the end of the Cold War.
The third part discusses the relationship between scientific
humanism and UNESCO with respect to four of its programmes: the
Management of Social Transformations Programme (MOST), the
International Bioethics Committee (IBC), the Dakar Framework for
Action, and the Culture of Peace Programme (CPP). Based on a
universal reform of education, the creation of a system of global
governance, and the philosophical appeal of a culture of peace
based on science, humanism, and human rights, UNESCO's vision of
globalization represents an intriguing example of how our global
future has been conceived and, to some extent, realized.
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