Postmodern politics for a planet in crisis : policy, process, and presidential vision
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Postmodern politics for a planet in crisis : policy, process, and presidential vision
（SUNY series in constructive postmodern thought）
State University of New York Press, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely new—one based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership.
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern Thought
David Ray Griffin
Introduction: From Modernity to Postmodern Politics
Richard Falk and David Ray Griffin
PART I: POLITICAL VISION AND POLICY FOR A POSTMODERN AMERICA 1. A Presidential Address on the Economy
John B. Cobb Jr.
2. The Full Measure of Our Days: Time and Public Policy in a Postmodern World
Joanna Macy
3. 2020 Hindsight: A Retired Kansas Farmer Looks Back on the Revolution in Agriculture between 1990 amd 2020
Wes Jackson
4. The "Vision Thing," the Presidency, and the Ecological Crisis, or the Greenhouse Effect and the "White House Effect"
David Ray Griffin
5. Without a Vision the People Perish: Washington D.C. as Parable
Jim Wallis
6. A Postmodern Vision of Education for a Living Planet
Douglas Sloan
PART II: THE POLITICAL PROCESS AND THE PRESIDENCY 7. Political Culture and the Presidency: Memory and the Shift from Mostmodern to Postmodern
Roger Wilkins
8. Politics for a Troubled Planet: Toward a Postmodern Democratic Culture
Frances Moore Lappe
9. A Postmodern Presidency for a Postmodern World
Richard Falk
10. Searching for a President with a Global Vision
Frank K. Kelly
Notes on Contributors and Centers
Index
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