| Description |
xxiii, 317 pages ; 25 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
Critical perspectives on modern culture |
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Critical perspectives on modern culture.
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| Contents |
User's Manual for Prometheus Revisited: Enlarging the Globalization Debate -- Preface: The Double Wall Before the Future -- Introduction: The Other Prometheus -- Shelley's Romantic Prometheanism -- The Dual Character of Promethean Modernity -- Pt. I. The Rise and Decline of the Modern Prometheus -- Ch. 1. The Nationalist Face of Prometheus -- Strategies of Liberal Capitalism -- Illusions of Nationalism -- Components of the Nationalist Apocalypse -- Ch. 2. Socialism, the Welfare State, and the Heritage of the Left: Solutions Swallowed Up by the Problem -- Promethean Modernity and Scientific Enlightenment -- Origins of the Modern Left -- From Arcadian Dreams to Socialist Prometheanism -- Anatomy of Defeat -- Downsizing, the "End of Work," And Job Export -- Neoliberalism, Social Dumping, and the Demise of Homo faber -- The Twilight of the European Left -- Ch. 3. Consumer Paradise: Another Failed Theodicy -- The Consumer as Promethean Hero -- Critics of Consumption -- Consumer Society as Carnival -- Carnivalesque Transgression Or Social Integration? -- Oil, Growth, and Unsustainability -- Pt. II. Prometheus Redeemed -- Ch. 4. Theoretical Interlude: The Questions of Needs and Nature -- Ideals of Consumption and Production -- Psycho-Anthropological Summary -- Schachtel's Theory -- Ch. 5. The Gathering Global Revolt Against Corporate Capitalism -- Movements of Resistance -- The French Case -- Seattle and the Emergence of a New International Opposition -- The Significance of the New Social Movements -- Ch. 6. Another World Is Possible -- Prometheus Or Pandora? -- Sustainable Democracies in a Noncapitalist Global Economy -- Problems -- The Historical Foundations of Social Justice -- Conclusion: Against Despair -- Postscript: Notes from a Hijacked Planet |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-305) and index |
| Subject |
Social justice.
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Globalization.
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Nationalism.
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| LC no. |
2002014518 |
| ISBN |
1558493891 Library Cloth edition alkaline paper |
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1558493905 Paper alkaline paper |
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