ISBN:
9783030928933
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Diversity and Inclusion Research Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
305.09
Keywords:
Culture-History
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1: Introduction: In Pursuit of a New Value System -- 1.1 The Social Construction of Wealth and Values -- 1.2 The Raison D'être of This Book -- 1.3 The Social Construction of Reality: Essential or Non-essential, That IS the Question! -- 1.4 The Urgency of a New Contract and a Return to Essentials -- 1.5 A Few Clarifications -- References -- 2: Values, Wealth, and Poverty: Tracing a Spatial-Temporal Metamorphosis -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 The Era of Divine Rewards and Punishments and the Knowledge-Wealth Dichotomy (Fourteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) -- 2.3 Disenchantment of Wealth and Poverty: Seventeenth to Eighteenth Centuries and the Enlightenment Rationalisation -- 2.4 The Birth of Capital and Social Class Struggles (Eighteenth to Early Nineteenth Centuries) -- 2.5 Social Revolutions, Engaged Arts, and the Pursuit of Social Justice: Mid-late Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Centuries -- 2.6 The Post-WWII Period, Reforms, Rise of Equality, and Cultural Wars -- 2.7 Conclusion -- References -- 3: The Capitalist Trojan Horse and Its Tenets -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The Galloping Fabrication of Poverty and Inequality -- 3.3 The Most Recent Capitalist Orders: Neo- or Techno-Feudalism and Green Growth -- 3.4 The Tenets of the Capitalist Social Contract -- 3.4.1 The Cult of Money -- 3.4.2 A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats and a Bigger Pie Makes Everyone Fatter! -- 3.4.3 The Metamorphosis of the Meaning and Scope of Freedom -- 3.4.4 Divide and Rule: The Us and Them ideology Reigns -- 3.5 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Education and Culture: The Instrumentalisation -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Human Brain, Ignorance, Normalisation, and Internalisation: The Process -- 4.3 Education and Culture: Power Struggles and Indoctrination.
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