Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis: Policy, Process, and Presidential Vision

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SUNY Press, 1993 M01 1 - 232 páginas
This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely new--one based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership.
 

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A Presidential Address on the Economy
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The Full Measure of Our Days Time and Public Policy in a Postmodern World
33
2020 Hindsight A Retired Kansas Farmer Looks Back on the Revolution in Agriculture between 1990 and 2020
49
The Vision Thing the Presidency and the Ecological Crisis or the Greenhouse Effect and the White House Effect
67
Without a Vision the People Perish Washington DC As Parable
103
A Postmodern Vision of Education for a Living Planet
117
Political Culture and the Presidency Memory and the Shift from Mostmodern to Postmodern
145
Politics for a Troubled Planet Toward a Postmodern Democratic Culture
163
A Postmodern Presidency for a Postmodern World
181
Searching for a President with a Global Vision
209
Notes on Contributors and Centers
221
Index
225
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Página xii - Wittgenstein, Martin Heidegger, and Jacques Derrida and other recent French thinkers. By the use of terms that arise out of particular segments of this movement, it can be called deconstructive or eliminative postmodernism. It overcomes the modern worldview through an antiworldview: it deconstructs or eliminates the ingredients necessary for a worldview, such as God, self, purpose, meaning, a real world, and truth as correspondence.

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David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies, and President of the Center for a Postmodern World. He is the author of God and Religion in the Postmodern World and Evil Revisited and editor of The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals; Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions; and Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art.

Richard Falk is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and rapporteur of the Global Civilization Project, an undertaking of the World Order Models Project. He is the author of Explorations at the Edge of Time: Prospects for the World Order; Revolutionaries and Functionaries: The Dual Face of Terrorism; A Study of Future Worlds; and (with Robert Jay Lifton) Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism.

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