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The Unconscious Civilization

Author
Saul, John Ralston
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NZ$12.00
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Our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, Saul argues. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negoiations 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.

Format
Second hand Paperback
ISBN
9780140264647 or 9780887845864
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42298

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