The future of values : 21st-century talks /
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| Imprint: | New York : Berghahn Books ; [Paris] : UNESCO Pub., 2004. |
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| Description: | xvi, 352 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5371929 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Abbreviations
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. The Future of Values
- Introduction
- Twilight, Clash or Hybridization of Values?
- Towards a Twilight of Values?
- Tactical Humanism
- From the Universal to the Singular: The Violence of the Global
- Values and the Challenge of the Inhuman
- The Culture of the Inhuman
- The Devil's Advocate, between the Ethical and the Systemic
- Serious Values or Frivolous Values?
- The Ethics of Complexity and the Problem of Values in the Twenty-First Century
- For a Subversive Genesis of Values
- Towards a Frivolousness of Values?
- Beyond the Aestheticization of Values?
- Art Beyond Aestheticism
- Towards a Postmodern Ethic of the Aesthetic
- The Soul of Values
- Towards the Reinterpretation of Values?
- Values and the Construction of Subjectivity
- Towards a Feminizing of Values?
- The Rise of Associations and New Forms of Solidarity
- Universal Project, Multiple Heritages
- Towards the Century of the Spirit?
- The Emergence of Cognitive Civilization
- Religion and the Challenge of the Spiritual in the Twenty-First Century
- Part II. Globalization, New Technologies and Culture
- Globalization and the 'Third Industrial Revolution'
- Globalization and its Discontents
- Globalization, Peace and Cosmopolitics
- Science, Technology and Globalization
- The New Technologies and Culture
- The Age of Access
- Is Culture Threatened?
- Cultural Globalization and the Preservation of Diversity
- A Tamed Schizophrenia?
- Reconstructing Culture
- The Future of Languages
- Colonization, Globalization and the Future of Languages
- The Life, Death and Resurrection of Languages
- Part III. Towards New Social Contracts?
- The New Social Contract and Lifelong Education for All
- Towards Lifelong Education for All
- Education and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century
- Women and the Future of Education
- A Natural Contract and the Future of Development
- The Natural Contract and Development in the Twenty-First Century
- The Future of Biodiversity
- Environment and Development in the Approaches to 2020
- Framing a Cultural Contract for the Twenty-First Century
- The Case for a Cultural Contract
- What Future for Cultural Pluralism?
- Culture in the Twenty-First Century: Cloning or Hybridization?
- Towards an Ethical Contract?
- Bioethics and the Future of Living Things
- Future Ethics and Politics
- Development in the Twenty-First Century?
- Shaping a Universal Consciousness
- Part IV. Science, Knowledge and Foresight
- The Human Impact of the Genetic Revolution
- Does Natural Selection Still Drive Evolution?
- From Genetic Mystification to Molecular Policing
- The Political Challenge of Genetic Engineering
- The New Faces of Racism
- Racism, Globalization and the Genetic Revolution
- The New Aspects of Racism in the Age of Globalization and the Gene Revolution
- Genism, Racism and the Prospect of Genetic Genocide
- The Genome, Biology and Racism
- The Imaginative Roots of Racism
- The Changing Face of Racism
- Self-Knowledge: Anticipating and Preventing Sickness of the Soul
- The New Maladies of the Soul
- The Compression of Time and Sickness of the Soul
- Exclusion and Sickness of the Soul
- Human Beings and the Future of the Universe
- The Future of the Universe: Big Bang or Big Crunch?
- Cosmologies of the Future
- Scientific Enquiry: Doubts and Certainties
- Conclusion: In Search of Lost Time--towards an Ethics of the Future?
- Select Bibliography
