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Jihad vs. McWorld: How the Planet Is Both Falling Apart and Coming Together and What This Means for Democracy
by Benjamin Barber
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Crown (1995-08-01)
ISBN: 0812923502
EAN: 9780812923506
Binding/Media: Hardcover - 381 pages
Edition: 1
Release Date: 1995-08-01
SKU: 04469
Condition: Collectible: Very Good
Comments: SIGNED by author, minor wear.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Barber offers a bold lens through which to understand the chaotic events of the post-Cold War world and, in the tradition of Alvin Toffler's Future Shock and Paul Kennedy's The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, explains the forces at work, why democracy is under siege, and what the consequences are for citizenship.
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Amazon.com Review
As soon as you hear the conceit of this book--that there are two great opposing forces at work in the world today, border-crossing capitalism and splintering factionalism, and that they are the two biggest threats to democracy--you know it rings true enough to be worth reading. Although capitalism could have only grown to current levels in the soil of democracies, Benjamin Barber argues that global capitalism now tends to work against the very concept of citizenship, of people thinking for themselves and with their neighbors. Too often now, how we think is the product of a transnational corporation (increasingly, a media corporation) with headquarters elsewhere. And although self-determination is one of the most fundamental of democratic principles, unchecked it has lead to a tribalism (think Bosnia, think Rwanda) in which virtually no one besides the local power elite gets a fair shake. The antidote, Barber concludes, is to work everywhere to resuscitate the non-governmental, non-business spaces in life--he calls them "civic spaces" (such as the village green, voluntary associations of every sort, churches, community schools)--where true citizenship thrives.
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