| Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis: Policy, Process, and Presidential Vision Contributor(s): Griffin, David Ray (Editor), Falk, Richard A. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 079141485X ISBN-13: 9780791414859 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover Published: July 1993 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | American Government - General - Philosophy |
| Dewey: 353.032 |
| LCCN: 92022104 |
| Series: Suny Constructive Postmodern Thought |
| Physical Information: (1.12 lbs) 232 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely new--one based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lapp , Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership. |