Requiem for modern politics : the tragedy of the enlightenment and the challenge of the new millennium /: the tragedy of the enlightenment and the challenge of the new millennium. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: William Ophuls.
• Authors: Ophuls, William, 1934-
• Contents: Preface, Prologue, INTRODUCTION, The Challenge of Ecological Scarcity, The Laws of Thermodynamics, An Abnormal Era of Rapid Economic Growth, From Pioneer to Climax Civilization, The Historical Origins of Liberal Politics, Looking Beyond Amoral Individualism, MORAL ENTROPY, Hobbes's Philosophical Revolution, Locke's Bourgeois Politics, Smith's Market Economics, Marx's Paradoxical Critique, The Contradictions of Hobbesian Politics, Moral Entropy Destroys Civil Society, The Tragedy of Modern Politics, ELECTRONIC BARBARISM, The Demise of the Virtuous Republic, Pluralism Devours Democracy, From Pluralism to Hyperpluralism, The Nightmare of Factionalism, The Death of Citizenship, Media and the Destruction of Political Reason, The Electronic Mob, Slouching Toward Barbarism, PREDATORY DEVELOPMENT, The Four Great Ills of Civilization, The Enlightenment "Solution, " An Absolute Dominion over Nature, A Political Economy of National Power, A War Against Household and Community, The Crucial Role of the State, Development As Cultural Genocide, The Fate of the American Farmer, Government Incorporated, A Necessary Leviathan, FALLACIOUS AFFLUENCE, The False Gospel of Growth, Insatiability, Inflation, Frustration, A Bootless Chase of Felicity, A Relentless Pursuit of Superiority, The Manufacture of Inequality, The Contradictions of Egalitarianism, The Perversion of Equality, The Futility of Affluence, FRAUDULENTABUNDANCE, The Paradox of Modern Abundance, Nature Ordains a General Scarcity, Limitation as a Creative Force, Escalating Maintenance Costs in the Human Ecosystem, Medicine as a Paradigm of Development, The Vulnerability of Artificial Systems, Civilization and Scarcity: A Summary View, From Energy Slavery to Energy Despotism, The Tragedy of Development, IRRATIONAL REASON, The New Inquisition, The Death of Nature, The Violation of Nature, From Rational Epistemology to Power Politics, Politics Overwhelmed by Science, The Destruction of the Cosmos, Spiritual Vertigo and Cultural Nihilism, Trying to Rationalize the Irrational, From Information Overload to Cultural Idiocy, Toward a Reign of Universal Ignorance, A Forced Reconstruction of Meaning, Idolatry and Ideology, The Roots of Passionate Intensity, From Despotic Rationalism to Despotic Politics, INTRINSIC TOTALITARIANISM, A Dictatorship of Test Tubes, The National-Security State, The Solitude of the Lonely Crowd, The Flight from Freedom, False Gods Usurp the Empty Throne, The Dialectic of Authority and Tyranny, The Psychopathic State, DEMOCRATIC DESPOTISM, An Immense and Tutelary Power, The Democratic Leviathan, The Politics of Stealth, Cradle-to-Grave Clients, The Democratic Nomenklatura, A State of Permanent Humiliation, Governance Versus Administration, The Tragedy of Liberalism, CONCLUSIONS, The Political Tragedy of the Enlightenment, The Political Challenge of the Twenty-first Century, Epilogue, Bibliographic Note, List of Sources, About the Book and Author, Index
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (340 pages)
• Subjects: 320.5/1; Liberalism; Liberalism -- Moral and ethical aspects; Environmental policy; Environmental policy; Liberalism; Liberalism -- Moral and ethical aspects; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429497674; 0429497679; 9780429988387; 0429988389; 9780429966224; 0429966229; 9780429977305; 0429977301
• Related ISBNs: 9780813331430; 9780813335162; 9780813331423; 9780367317683
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (Taylor & Francis, viewed June 5, 2019).
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