The end of modernity: what the financial and environmental crisis is really telling us

The global financial crisis and the global environmental crisis -what connects them? Sim claims that they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards. In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world’s insatiable need for technologically driven economic progress is unsustainable, to the extent that it could destroy the planet: environmentally, socially and economically. Simapproaches the problem from an interdisciplinary perspective, providing a wide-ranging assessment of the collapse of modernity and the challenges it poses.He calls for a radical alteration to our world view, showing that we need to jettison the free market, rein in conspicuous consumption, reinvigorate publicservice and develop talents other than the entrepreneurial if we are to reconstruct our society within a sustainable and socially responsible framework.

• ISBN: 978-0-7486-4035-5
• Editorial: Edinburgh University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 216
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés