An edition of Beyond civilization to post-civilization: conceiving a better model of life settlement to supersede civilization
(2006)
Beyond civilization to post-civilization
conceiving a better model of life settlement to supersede civilization
by Peter Baofu
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Beyond civilization to post-civilization: conceiving a better model of life settlement to supersede civilization
2006, Peter Lang
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082048170X 9780820481708
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Table of Contents
Introduction : from barbarity to civilization
The definition of a contested idea
The civilizational paradox
The theoretical debate
The structure of existential dialectics
Methodological holism
The outline of the project
Previous books, book title, and neologisms
Culture
The rationalizing process
Reason and unreason
The trinity of pre-modernity
The rise of linear-centric and cyclical-centric civilizations in pre-modernity
The dominance of linear-centric civilization in modernity
The crisis of linear-centric civilization in postmodernity
The rise of post-civilization in after-postmodernity
Previous books, book title, and neologisms
Society
The pacifying process
Peace and war
The structural process of social differentiation
The institutional process of social rationalization
The organizational process of centralization
The systematic process of integration
The recurrence of physical violence
Nature
The stewardizing process
Stewardship and reverence
The stewardship of creation in linear-centric civilization
The covenant with nature in cyclical-centric civilization
The dilemmas of man-nature relationship
The mind
The subliming process
Self-control and spontaneity
The linear-centric subliming process
The cyclical-centric subliming process
Neurosis and the culture of self-control
Conclusion : from civilization to post-civilization
Civilization and post-civilization
The false dichotomy of civilization and barbarity
The future of post-civilization unto the post-human age.
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