Beyond civilization to post-civilization
Subtitle: conceiving a better model of life settlement to supersede civilization
By: Peter Baofu.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Subjects: Civilization -- Philosophy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : from barbarity to civilization; title: The definition of a contested idea; title: The civilizational paradox; title: The theoretical debate; title: The structure of existential dialectics; title: Methodological holism; title: The outline of the project; title: Previous books, book title, and neologisms; title: Culture; title: The rationalizing process; title: Reason and unreason; title: The trinity of pre-modernity; title: The rise of linear-centric and cyclical-centric civilizations in pre-modernity; title: The dominance of linear-centric civilization in modernity; title: The crisis of linear-centric civilization in postmodernity; title: The rise of post-civilization in after-postmodernity; title: Previous books, book title, and neologisms; title: Society; title: The pacifying process; title: Peace and war; title: The structural process of social differentiation; title: The institutional process of social rationalization; title: The organizational process of centralization; title: The systematic process of integration; title: The recurrence of physical violence; title: Nature; title: The stewardizing process; title: Stewardship and reverence; title: The stewardship of creation in linear-centric civilization; title: The covenant with nature in cyclical-centric civilization; title: The dilemmas of man-nature relationship; title: The mind; title: The subliming process; title: Self-control and spontaneity; title: The linear-centric subliming process; title: The cyclical-centric subliming process; title: Neurosis and the culture of self-control; title: Conclusion : from civilization to post-civilization; title: Civilization and post-civilization; title: The false dichotomy of civilization and barbarity; title: The future of post-civilization unto the post-human age.