The Empathic Civilization
Subtitle: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
By: Jeremy Rifkin.
Publisher: J.P. Tarcher/Penguin
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781585427659
Subjects: Empathy; Conduct of life; Civilization, Modern -- 21st century -- Forecasting; Twenty-first century -- Forecasts; Social prediction
Genres: Forecasts
Table of contents: title: The hidden paradox of human history; title: The new view of human nature; title: A sentient interpretation of biological evolution; title: Becoming human; title: Rethinking the meaning of the human journey; title: The ancient theological brain and patriarchal economy; title: Cosmopolitan Rome and the rise of urban Christianity; title: The soft industrial revolution of the late medieval era and the birth of humanism; title: Ideological thinking in a modern market economy; title: Psychological consciousness in a postmodern existential world; title: The climb to global peak empathy; title: The planetary entropic abyss; title: The emerging era of distributed capitalism; title: The theatrical self in an improvisational society; title: Biosphere consciousness in a climax economy.