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Beyond civilization to post-civilization : conceiving a better model of life settlement to supersede civilization / Peter Baofu.
| Author/creator | Baofu, Peter |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Peter Lang, ©2006. |
| Description | x, 203 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Table of contents |
| Subjects |
| Contents | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [187]-192) and index. |
| LCCN | 2005032908 |
| ISBN | 082048170X (hardcover : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780820481708 |