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The Unconscious Civilization

By Saul , John Ralston

Book information

Publisher
House of Anansi Press, House of Anansi Press Inc.;Distributed in Canada by Publishers Group Canada
ISBN
088784586X, 9780887845864
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2125324 bytes)
Series
CBC Massey lectures
Pages
205 pages ; 21 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Modern;CivilizationPolitical science--Philosophy;CivilizationWestern;Corporate state;Democracy;Elite (Social sc

Description

Governor General's Award Winner Tenth Anniverary Edition, with a new preface Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups. The paradox of our situation is that knowledge has not made us conscious. Instead, we have sought refuge in a world of illusion where language is cut off from reality. Reconnecting language to reality, clarifying what we mean by individualism and democracy, making these realities central to the citizen's life, identifying ideologies in order to control them, these are among the first elements of equilibrium which Saul proposes in these lectures.

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