William Ophuls

Requiem For Modern Politics (eBook, ePUB)

The Tragedy Of The Enlightenment And The Challenge Of The New Millennium

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book argues that modern politics has reached the end of its tether. It contends that the modern political paradigm-that is, the body of political concepts and beliefs bequeathed to people by the Enlightenment-is no longer intellectually tenable or practically viable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429977305
• Artikelnr.: 56862026

Autorenporträt

William Ophuls is a former member of the U.S. Foreign Service and has taught political science at Northwestern University. He is the author of Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity, which won the International Studies Association's Sprout Prize and the American Political Science Association's Kammerer Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
Introduction
Moral Entropy
Electronic Barbarism
Predatory Development
Fallacious Affluence
Fraudulent Abundance
Irrational Reason
Intrinsic Totalitarianism
Democratic Despotism
Conclusions
Epilogue