Description
Book SynopsisJrgen Habermas, speaking of postmodern society, remarked that extension of the means of communication not only allows a wide range of information, but it also encourages permanent connections between different peoples, cultures, and social discourses. It thus facilitates better general understanding, a clarifying of real or apparent contradictions. But this process becomes truly positive only when it is performed between equal members. Globalization of information does not minimize the possibility of conflict or terrorism, if fundamental social problems are not resolved or at least approached in an active way.
This volume examines the major upheavals of the twentieth century and views within the framework of these events and challenges implications for the future. Values and Cultural Changes in the Postmodern World, by Zygmunt Bauman explores the changing meaning of space in the globalizing environment; S.N. Eisenstadt analyzes the destructive components of modernity; and Irvi
Table of Contents
1: Values and Cultural Changes in the Postmodern World; 1: Space in the Globalizing World; 2: Barbarism and Modernity; 3: Social Science as Cultural Formation; 2: Social Development and Policies in Contemporary Society; 4: Development of Applied Social Science—The World Bank Experience; 5: Progressing Health and Healthcare; 3: Societies in Transition—Eastern Europe; 6: Socialist and Capitalist Experiments in the Twentieth Century—The Case of Russia; 7: Post-Communist Societies; 4: The Jewish World; 8: Jewish Identities and the Diaspora—The Diaspora Paradigm Confronting Modernity; 9: The Jews of Independent Poland—Linguistic and Cultural Changes; 10: Who Rules Israel?; 11: Despoliation, Reparation, Compensation
