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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780745641461
Year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 688
Description:
In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization,
bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy
and the profound ways that it has shaped our development-and is
likely to determine our fate as a species.
Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and
interconnected world that will demand an unprecedented level of
mutual understanding among diverse peoples and nations. Do we have
the capacity and collective will to come together in a way that
will enable us to cope with the great challenges of our time?
In this remarkable book Jeremy Rifkin tells the dramatic story
of the extension of human empathy from the rise of the first great
theological civilizations, to the ideological age that dominated
the 18th and 19th centuries, the psychological era that
characterized much of the 20th century and the emerging
dramaturgical period of the 21st century. The result is a new
social tapestry-The Empathic Civilization-woven from a wide range
of fields.
Rifkin argues that at the very core of the human story is the
paradoxical relationship between empathy and entropy. At various
times in history new energy regimes have converged with new
communication revolutions, creating ever more complex societies
that heightened empathic sensitivity and expanded human
consciousness. But these increasingly complicated milieus require
extensive energy use and speed us toward resource depletion.
The irony is that our growing empathic awareness has been made
possible by an ever-greater consumption of the Earth's resources,
resulting in a dramatic deterioration of the health of the planet.
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780745641461
Year: 2010
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 688
Description:
In this sweeping new interpretation of the history of civilization,
bestselling author Jeremy Rifkin looks at the evolution of empathy
and the profound ways that it has shaped our development-and is
likely to determine our fate as a species.
Today we face unparalleled challenges in an energy-intensive and
interconnected world that will demand an unprecedented level of
mutual understanding among diverse peoples and nations. Do we have
the capacity and collective will to come together in a way that
will enable us to cope with the great challenges of our time?
In this remarkable book Jeremy Rifkin tells the dramatic story
of the extension of human empathy from the rise of the first great
theological civilizations, to the ideological age that dominated
the 18th and 19th centuries, the psychological era that
characterized much of the 20th century and the emerging
dramaturgical period of the 21st century. The result is a new
social tapestry-The Empathic Civilization-woven from a wide range
of fields.
Rifkin argues that at the very core of the human story is the
paradoxical relationship between empathy and entropy. At various
times in history new energy regimes have converged with new
communication revolutions, creating ever more complex societies
that heightened empathic sensitivity and expanded human
consciousness. But these increasingly complicated milieus require
extensive energy use and speed us toward resource depletion.
The irony is that our growing empathic awareness has been made
possible by an ever-greater consumption of the Earth's resources,
resulting in a dramatic deterioration of the health of the planet.