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Grassroots Post-Modernism

Remaking the Soil of Cultures

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  • 240 páginas
  • 9 horas de lectura

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This remarkable book draws its inspiration from what its authors describe as the post-modern epic now unfolding at the grassroots. It portrays the ways in which the world’s social majorities are now escaping from the monoculture of a single global civilization and regenerating their own cultural and natural spaces. In so doing, they are challenging the three sacred cows of modernity--the idea, entrenched in globalization, that there is only one, universally valid way of understanding social reality; the exclusive and general validity of Western-defined notions of human; and the notion of the self-sufficient individual, as opposed to people-in-community, which has grotesquely transformed how we see the human condition. This is quite simply, a book which will transform how one sees the world--North and South.

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Grassroots Post-Modernism, Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash

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2001
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Título
Grassroots Post-Modernism
Subtítulo
Remaking the Soil of Cultures
Idioma
Inglés
Editorial
Zed Books
Publicado en
2001
Formato
Tapa blanda
Páginas
240
ISBN10
1856495469
ISBN13
9781856495462
Serie
Descripción
This remarkable book draws its inspiration from what its authors describe as the post-modern epic now unfolding at the grassroots. It portrays the ways in which the world’s social majorities are now escaping from the monoculture of a single global civilization and regenerating their own cultural and natural spaces. In so doing, they are challenging the three sacred cows of modernity--the idea, entrenched in globalization, that there is only one, universally valid way of understanding social reality; the exclusive and general validity of Western-defined notions of human; and the notion of the self-sufficient individual, as opposed to people-in-community, which has grotesquely transformed how we see the human condition. This is quite simply, a book which will transform how one sees the world--North and South.