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The unconscious civilization
Record details
- ISBN: 9780684832579
- ISBN: 9780887845765 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780887845864
- ISBN: 0684832577
- ISBN: 0887845762 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 088784586X
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Physical Description:
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199 pages ; 21 cm. : ill. - Publisher: Concord, Ontario : Anansi, 1995.
- Copyright: ©1995.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "Broadcast in November 1995 as part of CBC Radio's Ideas series"--Series t.p. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Political science -- Philosophy Civilization, Western -- Philosophy Civilization, Western Civilization, Modern Corporate state Individualism Elite (Social sciences) Democracy |
| Topic Heading: | Political science - Philosophy. |
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Summary:
"Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations 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."--
