The future of technological civilization

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Ferkiss, Victor C.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York, G. Braziller [1974]
Subjects:	Technology and civilization. Human ecology. Civilization, Modern > 1950- Social change. Technology. Ecology. Civilization. Technology Ecology Civilization Social Change Technologie et civilisation. Écologie humaine. Civilisation > 1950- Changement social. Technologie. Écologie. Civilisation. human ecology. ecology. civilization. 02.00 science and culture in general. Civilization, Modern. Technik Zivilisation Zukunft TECHNOLOGICAL FORECASTING. Human ecology Social change Technology and civilization Technik. Zivilisation. Zukunft. Since 1950

Table of Contents:

pt. 1. Liberalism and beyond. Invasion of the human world
End of the modern era
Liberal ideology and the assault on nature
American liberalism in triumph and decay
Technology and the end of liberalism
Roads to nowhere: conservatism, socialism, anarchism, and the antipolitics of despair
pt. 2. Ecological humanism. Real and the ideal: philosophy and politics
Man in nature and the nature of man
Nature and human values
Goodness of man and the primacy of politics
Beyond liberalism to freedom
Human needs in social perspective
Common good: present and future
Ecological humanism: a political philosophy for technological man
pt. 3. Planet fit for man. Necessary utopia I: the politics of ecological humanism
Politics and culture in a humane society
pt. 4. Emergent future. Getting there from here: the immanent revolution
Ecological humanism and planetary society: the restoration of earth and beyond.