Beyond civilization to post-civilization : conceiving a better model of life settlement to supersede civilization /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Baofu, Peter
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, [2006]
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505 0 |a Introduction : from barbarity to civilization -- The definition of a contested idea -- The civilizational paradox -- The theoretical debate -- The structure of existential dialectics -- Methodological holism -- The outline of the project -- Previous books, book title, and neologisms -- Culture -- The rationalizing process -- Reason and unreason -- The trinity of pre-modernity -- The rise of linear-centric and cyclical-centric civilizations in pre-modernity -- The dominance of linear-centric civilization in modernity -- The crisis of linear-centric civilization in postmodernity -- The rise of post-civilization in after-postmodernity -- Society -- The pacifying process -- Peace and war -- The structural process of social differentiation -- The institutional process of social rationalization -- The organizational process of centralization -- The systematic process of integration -- The recurrence of physical violence -- Nature -- The stewardizing process -- Stewardship and reverence -- The stewardship of creation in linear-centric civilization -- The covenant with nature in cyclical-centric civilization -- The dilemmas of man-nature relationship -- The mind -- The subliming process -- Self-control and spontaneity -- The linear-centric subliming process -- The cyclical-centric subliming process -- Neurosis and the culture of self-control -- Conclusion : from civilization to post-civilization -- Civilization and post-civilization -- The false dichotomy of civilization and barbarity -- The future of post-civilization unto the post-human age. 
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