Crisis and renewal of civilizations : the 21st century crisis of ideas and character / Marek J. Celinski, editor.

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CRISIS AND RENEWAL OF CIVILIZATIONS: THE 21ST CENTURY CRISIS OF IDEAS AND CHARACTER; CRISIS AND RENEWAL OF CIVILIZATIONS: THE 21ST CENTURY CRISIS OF IDEAS AND CHARACTER; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: CIVILIZATIONS AS A PROJECTION OF HUMAN NATURE; THE MIND AND ITS PROJECTIONS; HUMAN NATURE AND ITS ROLE IN CRISIS AND RENEWAL; OVERVIEW OF THE BOOK; REFERENCES; PART I: HUMAN NATURE AND ITS POTENTIAL FOR CRISIS AND RENEWAL; Chapter 1: THE SIMILARITIES BETWEEN PERSONAL AND CIVILIZATIONAL CRISIS AND RENEWAL; ABSTRACT

WHY DO WE NEED CIVILIZATIONS?THE ESSENCE OF CRISIS; FROM DETERMINISM TO FREEDOM; WHICH SOCIO-CULTURAL TRADITION HELPS TO PROMOTE HOLISTIC EXPRESSIONS OF HUMAN NATURE?; THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FACTORS LEADING TO SUCCESS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: WHAT HATH MAN WROUGHT: UTOPIAN DREAMS AND DELUSIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; UTOPIA: THE ANCIENT ADMONITION; UTOPIA: THE MODERN DREAM; UTOPIA: THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY REALITY; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: NON-LINEAR FUTURE: GLOBAL CRISES IN VIEW OF MEGA-HISTORY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION

1. THE CONCEPT OF CRISIS: THE LAW OF DELAYED DYSFUNCTION AND THE RULE OF REDUNDANT VARIETY2. ANTHROPOGENIC CRISES: THE LAW OF TECHNO-HUMANITARIAN BALANCE; 3. GROWTH AND LIMITATION OF VARIETY: THE LAW OF HIERARCHICAL COMPENSATIONS; 4. THE SPECIFICITY OF MODERN CRISIS: "KNOWLEDGE-ENABLED DESTRUCTION"; 5. COSMIC PERSPECTIVES OF INTELLIGENCE AND UNIVERSAL NATURAL SELECTION; 6. SNOOKS-PANOV VERTICAL; 7. VIABILITY AND THE WORLDVIEW PARADIGMS: IDEOLOGY VS. CIVILIZATION?; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: HUMAN NATURE AND COLLECTIVE WISDOM IN AN AGE OF CRISIS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; OVERPOPULATION

ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATIONCOOPERATION AND CONFLICT; CRISIS AND RENEWAL; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: EVIL IN CIVILIZATIONS AND SOLUTIONS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; WHAT IS EVIL? AND WHY FOCUS ON "PSYCHOPATHS" WHATEVER THEY ARE?; ORGANIZATIONAL EVILS IN MORE DETAIL; SATANIC CULTS AND OTHER POSSIBLE EVIDENCE OF "SUPERNATURAL" EVIL; COMPARATIVE RELIGION; THE EVOLUTION OF EVIL IN CIVILIZATIONS; SOLUTIONS; REFERENCES; Chapter 6: REVOLUTIONS: A VIOLENT ENCOUNTER WITH ETERNITY; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION AND THEORETICAL OUTLINE; SYMBOLISM AND POLITICAL ORDER

UTOPIA AND APOCALYPSE: SYMBOLS OF THE REVOLUTIONTHE ETERNAL RETURN OF THERMIDOR; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 7: IMAGINING THE FUTURE OF CIVILIZATION: USING SCIENCE FICTION TO OBJECTIVIZE CRISIS AND RENEWAL; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; SCIENCE FICTION AS CIVILIZATIONAL CRITIQUE; FRANK HERBERT"S DUNE; APPLYING THE PLOT LINE OF DUNE TO OUR PRESENT; SCIENCE FICTION SPECULATION ON A WORLD OF WEAPONIZED AUTOMATONS; STAR TREK; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; PART II: RENEWAL OF CIVILIZATIONS; Chapter 8: THE TRAUMA OF TIME AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF COGNITION AND MORALITY; ABSTRACT

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