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The Future of Humanity seeks to answer the question: "What kind of global civilization should human beings pursue and what do we have to do collectively?," one a question that has preoccupied scholars, philosophers and politicians for centuries. In doing so, the book tackles concepts as monumental as the keys to happiness, alien nonconventional intelligence, immortality, morality and China's possible role in bringing about a better worldjoining this global discussion. To navigate these many and complex topics, Jin combines the spiritual insights of ancient Chinese thinkers with a deep respect for the accomplishments and discoveries of modern Western science, exploring and explaining her distinct vision for a what a better, global future civilization could be.

Though today best remembered as a science fiction writer, H.G. Wells was a keen observer of social and geopolitical trends who mined his era's headlines as fodder for his creative work. The writer was deeply shaken by the destruction and death wrought by World War I, and in this volume of passionate essays and observations, Wells lays out his suggestions for avoiding global conflict in the future

1. THE CONCEPT OF CRISIS: THE LAW OF DELAYED DYSFUNCTION AND THE RULE OF REDUNDANT VARIETY2. ANTHROPOGENIC CRISES: THE LAW OF TECHNO-HUMANITARIAN BALANCE; 3. GROWTH AND LIMITATION OF VARIETY: THE LAW OF HIERARCHICAL COMPENSATIONS; 4. THE SPECIFICITY OF MODERN CRISIS: "KNOWLEDGE-ENABLED DESTRUCTION"; 5. COSMIC PERSPECTIVES OF INTELLIGENCE AND UNIVERSAL NATURAL SELECTION; 6. SNOOKS-PANOV VERTICAL; 7. VIABILITY AND THE WORLDVIEW PARADIGMS: IDEOLOGY VS. CIVILIZATION?; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: HUMAN NATURE AND COLLECTIVE WISDOM IN AN AGE OF CRISIS; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; OVERPOPULATION

Andrew Linklater's The Problem of Harm in World Politics (Cambridge, 2011) created a new agenda for the sociology of states-systems. Violence and Civilization in the Western States-Systems builds on the author's attempts to combine the process-sociological investigation of civilizing processes and the English School analysis of international society in a higher synthesis. Adopting Martin Wight's comparative approach to states-systems and drawing on the sociological work of Norbert Elias, Linklater asks how modern Europeans came to believe themselves to be more 'civilized' than their medieval forebears. He investigates novel combinations of violence and civilization through a broad historical scope from classical antiquity, Latin Christendom and Renaissance Italy to the post-Second World War era. This book will interest all students with an interdisciplinary commitment to investigating long-term patterns of change in world politics

Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: ADDRESSING THE QUESTION -- 1 The Notion of Social Pathology: A Case Study of Narcissus in American Society -- 2 The Social Pathologies of Contemporary Civilization: Meaning-giving Experiences and Pathological Expectations Concerning Health and Suffering -- 3 Modernity as Spiritual Disorder: Searching for a Vocabulary of Social Pathologies in the Work of Eric Voegelin -- PART II SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: CONTEMPORARY MALAISES -- 4 The Value of Houses in the Libidinal Economy: Financialization as Social Pathogenesis -- 5 Depression: Resisting Ultra-liberalism? -- 6 The Pathologization of Morality -- 7 The Multiple Self: A Social Pathology? -- 8 Possible Explanations for Increasing Antidepressant Treatment in Modern Society -- PART III SOCIAL PATHOLOGIES: BIOPOWER, SUBJECTIFICATION AND CIVILIZATION -- 9 Does Society Still Matter? Mental Health and Illness and the Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century -- 10 Evaluations as a Process of Disenfranchisement -- 11 Schismogenesis, Liminality and Public Health