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Ariadnes Thread Mary E. Clark

Ariadnes Thread By Mary E. Clark

Ariadnes Thread by Mary E. Clark


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An analysis of the contemporary world and its future. The author begins by assessing whether there are limits to growth and if so, how we can change our attitude and prevent the destruction which seems inevitable.

Ariadnes Thread Summary

Ariadnes Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking by Mary E. Clark

An analysis of the contemporary world and its future. The author begins by assessing whether there are limits to growth and if so, how we can change our attitude and prevent the destruction which seems inevitable. The work should be of particular interest to Green Party goups, environmental groups, humanistic economics groups and liberal religious groups.

Table of Contents

Preface - PART I: Nature's Constraints: 'What are the Limits to Growth?' - The Future: A Search for Values - Energy and Exponentials - The Economics of Spaceship Earth - Our Environmental Charge Account Comes Due - PART II: The Human Animal: 'What is Human Nature?' - The Emergence of Human Nature - The Cultural Spectrum - Religion and Worldviews - On Acquiring a Worldview - PART III: Possessive Individualism: 'Whence Comes This Western Worldview?' - From God to Man: Origins of the Western Worldview - The Cult of Efficiency - Alienation - The Loss of the Sacred - PART IV: New Modes of Thinking: 'Where Do We Begin?' - Rethinking Economics - Defusing the Global Powder Keg - Politics: Worldviews in Action - Nuclear 'Defence' - or Conflict Resolution? - Humankind at the Crossroads - Notes - Index

Additional information

NPB9780333466001
9780333466001
0333466004
Ariadnes Thread: The Search for New Modes of Thinking by Mary E. Clark
New
Paperback
Palgrave Macmillan
1989-07-24
584
N/A
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