Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society Explorations in Social Morphogenesis /

This book addresses the problem of the transition to new forms of social order in the global world. As a haunting sense of historical discontinuity pervades Western societies, it offers a fresh perspective on the issue, focusing on two basic coordinates to pinpoint the developmental path of rapidly...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Maccarini, Andrea M. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: e-Book
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : 2019.
Imprint: Springer,
Edition:1st ed. 2019.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Philosophy and social sciences.
Quality of life.
Social Theory.
Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
Quality of Life Research.
Online Access:Full-text access
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1: THE MORPHOGENETIC APPROACH: DEBATES AND EXTENSIONS.- Chapter 1. Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Analysing the morphogenic society. Regularities and social ontology
  • Chapter 3. After late modernity? The morphogenetic approach as hermeneutics of transition
  • Part 2: AN OUTLINE OF THE MORPHOGENIC SOCIETY
  • Chapter 4. Adaptive responses to unbound morphogenesis: openness and closure in turbulent times
  • Chapter 5. War and violence in the morphogenic society
  • Chapter 6. The logic of opportunity and its normative (dis)contents
  • Chapter 7. Formations of the secular. Transcendence in a society without horizon
  • Part 3: HUMANITY COUNTS. ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF UNBOUND MORPHOGENESIS
  • Chapter 8. The pressure on the human. Self and character in the new social order
  • Chapter 9. A good life without horizon?
  • Chapter 10. Conclusion. A glimpse on morphogenic futures.

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