For Harry Redner, the phrase "beyond civilization" refers to the new
and unprecedented condition the world is now entering‘specifically,
the condition commonly known as globalization. Redner approaches
globalization from the perspective of history and seeks to interpret
it in relation to previous key stages of human development. His
account begins with the Axial Age (700 300 BC) and proceeds through
Modernity (after AD 1500) to the present global condition. What is
globalization doing to civilization? In answering this question,
Redner studies the role played by capitalism, the state, science and
technology. He aims to show that they have had a catalytic impact on
civilization through their reductive effect on society, culture, and
individualism. However, Redner is not content to diagnose the ills of
civilization; he also suggests how they might be ameliorated by
cultural conservation. Above all, it is to the problem of decline in
the higher forms of literacy that he addresses himself, for it is on
the culture of the book that previous civilizations were founded. This
study will be of interest to sociologists, historians, and social and
political theorists. Its style makes it accessible also to general
readers, interested in civilization past, present, and future.
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ISBN
9781351313988
Publisert
2020
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Routledge
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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