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Together, Daisaku Ikeda and Josef Derbulav explore a wide range of topics, starting with a discussion of the tension between tradition and modernization in Japan and elsewhere. They compare humanism in East and West, and Buddhism and Christianity. Focusing on the crucial topic of education, they consider the roles of ethics and religion, and zero in on concrete problems and issues: education and political authority, absenteeism, violence in schools,...

"At the End of an Age is a reflection on the nature of historical and scientific knowledge. Of extraordinary philosophical, religious, and historical scope, it is the product of a great historian's lifetime of thought on the subject of his discipline and the human condition. While running counter to most of the accepted ideas and doctrines of our time, it offers a compelling framework for understanding history, science, and man's capacity for self-knowledge."...

Jacques Ellul is primarily known for his insightful critiques of Western culture. His recent books describe the "new demons" let loose upon the contemporary world by the double-edged achievements of science and industry. But he asserts in this latest book, the critics have gone too far. The West is the victim of a betrayal -- that of its own children. Its intellectuals, most notably those of the Left, are necessarily that products of a civilized society....

Ever since Descartes saw nature as a vast, interlocking machine and science banished the soul, philosophers have been uncomfortable with this materialistic outlook. Barrett (Irrational Man here looks at the way in which various thinkers have attempted to put the human soul or self in the forefront of their visions of reality. He discusses Leibniz's energized universe of monads, or individual souls, Hegel's blueprint for self-realization as part of...

Explores the needs and motivations which make people band together for physical and emotional survival. Warns of the dangers of denying our tribal nature.

"Globalization necessitates a new reading of the human story, historian Robbie Robertson argues in this thought-provoking study. Its origins, he suggests, lie in the interconnections that slowly enveloped humans from the earliest of times. But things changed dramatically five hundred years ago when humanity's interconnections assumed global proportions for the first time and produced what the author sees as three consecutive waves of globalization,...

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Essays on the McDonald's fast food chain, Disney, and other enterprises relating to globalization, consumption, and sociological issues.