Catalogue

Record Details

Catalogue Search


Back To Results
Showing Item 8 of 26

The empathic civilization : the race to global consciousness in a world in crisis  Cover Image Book Book

The empathic civilization : the race to global consciousness in a world in crisis

Rifkin, Jeremy (author.).

Summary: Bestselling social critic Jeremy Rifkin shows that the disconnection between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781585427659
  • ISBN: 1585427659
  • Physical Description: print
    regular print
    x, 674 pages ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc., 2009.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-656) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: The hidden paradox of human history -- The new view of human nature -- A sentient interpretation of biological evolution -- Becoming human -- Rethinking the meaning of the human journey -- The ancient theological brain and patriarchal economy -- Cosmopolitan Rome and the rise of urban Christianity -- The soft industrial revolution of the late medieval era and the birth of humanism -- Ideological thinking in a modern market economy -- Psychological consciousness in a postmodern existential world -- The climb to global peak empathy -- The planetary entropic abyss -- The emerging era of distributed capitalism -- The theatrical self in an improvisational society -- Biosphere consciousness in a climax economy.
Subject: Empathy
Conduct of life
Civilization, Modern -- 21st century -- Forecasting
Twenty-first century -- Forecasts
Social prediction

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Selkirk College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Show All Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Castlegar Campus Library BJ 1475 R54 2009 (Text)
Copy: c. 1
B001268903 General Volume hold Available -

Back To Results
Showing Item 8 of 26

Additional Resources