CRITIQUE OF WESTERN PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL THEORY
Book ID/图书代码： 08296013B59804
English Summary/英文概要： The "existential" drama at the heart of the modern world is the result of a truly cataclysmic transformation in our institutions and modes of belief. It rivals in scope and significance, if it does not surpass, the transformation occasioned by the "Scientific Revolution" of the sixteenth and seventeenth century.Few can still doubt - even if they do not yet appreciate - the comprehensive and global scope of this "Second Scientific Revolution." Our fundamental modes of thought and action, institutional structure, personal identity, economic development, and relation to nature, all require radical revision if human life on this planet (and beyond) is to survive and prosper. We are thus confronted with a world whose structures of meaning and corresponding institutional foundations are being undermined, thus presaging a revolutionary transformation. That transformation, however unclear at present, cannot fail to be radical and comprehensive. This work critically evaluates its nature, outlines the structures of an alternative world view and then develops the contours of the social and institutional order it suggests. It concludes with a discussion of practical strategies by which we may reasonably hope to meet the challenges confronting our civilization.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 在当今世界，人们的核心价值观是“存在主义”思想，它是我们社会体制和观念形态的一场真正大转变的结果。它在范围和重要性层面的竞争对手，在于十六、十七世纪的“科学革命”所引起的人们思想的转变。很少有人对此持怀疑态度——即使他们还没有珍惜这个“二次科学革命”广泛、全球性的影响范围。如果地球上(以及其他星球的)人类生活想要生存，发展的话，我们基本的思维模式和行为模式、制度结构、个人身份、经济发展,以及与大自然的关系,所有的一切都需要彻底的改变。因此，我们面临着一个社会结构和相应的制度基础正遭受破坏的世界，从而预示着一场革命性的转变。这一转变，尽管在当下是模糊不清的，然而，它最后的影响一定是彻底并且广泛的。这本巨著用批判性的视角分析了它的本质，概述了另一种世界观的形成，接着形成了它所表明的社会和制度秩序的概要。这本书以一次实际策略的讨论而结束，通过讨论，我们期待迎接文明所面临的挑战。(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况："A surprisingly broad yet detailed tour of the history of ideas, of the development of consciousness, self-consciousness and freedom, of the development and functions of individuals and social relationships, and of the evolution of human nature from pre-humans to modern humans. The book challenges and guides readers to think like they’ve never thought before as it transforms the current/prevalent world view of things and people and events-based-on-things-and-people into a world of things, people, hierarchies, emergent properties, event-guiding-field-interactions and a fabric of interconnectedness that by far can be best understood by reading this book. This book effortlessly (and delightfully) transcends philosophical, social and natural scientific realms while maintaining a level of scholarship suitable for university and professional/research discussions." - Rolf Martin, Bioinformatics Director, MMT Corporation
"David Sprintzen’s book is an ambitious, learned, probing, daring, and controversial work, reflecting decades of Sprintzen’s thinking and actionin regardto many of life’s most engaging metaphysical, existential, and social issues. Convinced that we are experiencing the ’death throes’ of the ’modern Western world, ’ Sprintzen assiduously offers us the contours of a global metaphysical and cultural transformation that is struggling to give birth to a ’new world.’ In the process, he criticizes modernity’s substance- or object-oriented reductionist metaphysics, unabashedly dismisses religion as outdated through scientific progress, and outlines an alternative naturalistic but non-reductive metaphysics of ’emergence.’ Using that as base, he radically deconstructsand indicts the theory and practice of free market capitalism, atomistic Individualism, the New Colonialism, and all forms of exploitative social competition. His distinct call to all of us is to effect a transformation of values and social institutions coherent with his proposed field theory. Agreeor
About the Author/作者介绍： David Sprintzen是长岛大学哲学专业的名誉教授，他在长岛大学创立了可持续发展研究院，在那里担任了七年的主任。除了众多大众喜爱的学术型文章，他还写了三本书，获得了众多好评。David Sprintzen is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Long Island University, having served as Chairperson of the Philosophy Department at C. W. Post College, and as Vice-Chairperson of the College’s Faculty Council and Vice- President of the University Senate. He founded the Institute for Sustainable Development at Long Island University and served as its Co-Director for seven years. In addition to numerous popular and scholarly articles, he has authored three previous books: Camus: A Critical Examination, Sartre and Camus: An Historic Confrontation, and The Drama of Thought: an enquiry into the place of philosophy in human experience. He is also a founder and Co-Chair of the Long Island Progressive Coalition, on whose Board of Directors he continues to serve as an officer. He represents the LIPC on the Board of its statewide affiliate, Citizen Action of New York, part of the network of US Action national affiliates, of which he was also a founding member. He served on New York Governor Mario Cuomo’s Shoreham Commission and, among numerous honors and awards, has been honored as a founder of the movement for sustainability on Long Island.
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