The Future Of Values: 21st-Century Talks - Couverture souple

Bindé, Jérôme

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1571814434 ISBN 13 : 9781571814432

Editeur : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2004

Synopsis

Genocide and community violence, the loss of ethical landmarks and social "order," lack of confidence in the viability of the prevailing system and economic forces: the 20th century has painfully challenged all our certainties concerning society, history, and humankind. This volume offers reflections on the likely nature of the values of the 21st century and addresses questions such as whether aesthetics will prevail over ethics, whether the third industrial revolution and its forms of globalization will shatter culture as we know it, hasten the decline of thousands of languages, or give rise to new forms of racism or "genism."

This volume, the second anthology originating from UNESCO's "Twenty-first Century Dialogues," brings together about fifty scientists and researchers from the four corners of the world to ponder the future of values and humanity.

Contributors include: Arjun Appadurai, Jean Baudrillard, Peter Sloterdikjk, Paul Ricoeur, Julia Kristeva, Paul Kennedy, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Delors, Edward O. Wilson, Nadine Gordimer, Achille Mbembe, Adalbert Barreto, Trinh Xuan Thuan.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jérôme Bindé is Director of the Office of Analysis and Forecasting at UNESCO, where he is responsible for the cycle of the "Twenty-First Century Talks." He is the principal co-author of an international report on Un monde nouveau.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1571814434
• ISBN 13: 9781571814432
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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