The author analyzes the system that regards nothing as sacred, that marketing now accepts that which was once considered as sin, and as a consequence, nothing is of value

Fool's Gold: The Fate of Values in a World of Goods

Business & Money

Schmookler, Andrew Bard

Economics

Harpercollins

Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war incontemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is goodsocial order to be achieved?
Through the ingenious means of a fictional Internet conversation among two dozen or so Americans from various walks of life and every shade of the ideological spectrum, Debating the Good Society probes two questions lying at the heart of the ongoing culture war in contemporary America: Where does goodness come from, and how is good social order to be achieved? Traditionalists and conservatives, who tend to view human nature as inherently sinful, argue that good order must be imposed from above, by parental authority and ruling powers, by the forces of law and tradition, and, ultimately, by God. Counterculturalists and liberals, who tend to believe in the inherent goodness of human nature, claim that well-supported children will develop into well-ordered adults and that adults empowered to make their own choices will form a healthy, well-ordered society. These opposing visions underlie a host of current controversies, including philosophies of child-rearing and education, social and political policy, sexual morality, and the evolution-creation debate. By exposing the limitations of both points of view, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the culture war presents a challenge to all Americans. This challenge is to integrate the half-truths advanced by both sides into a higher wisdom, one that promises to take the American experiment―to see whether humans can enjoy both the blessings of liberty and the fruits of good order―to the next level of its evolution, toward which it has been straining for the better part of a century.

Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

MIT Press]

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war."Goes far beyond our common folk knowledge about power." -- New York Times Book ReviewThe Parable of the Tribes provides a new way of analyzing the human condition. This panoramic work, which incorporates history, philosophy, anthropology, and psychoanalytic theory within its sweep, is troubling and difficult; nevertheless, it is surprisingly readable and, in the end, hopeful." -- Esquire"In an age of intellectual timidity, Andrew Bard Schmookler's Parable of the Tribes is a work of immense scope and boldness. It makes a serious contribution to our understanding of war, peace, and civilization in a world spinning out of control." -- Daniel Yankelovitch"Imagine a group of tribes living within reach of one another. If all choose the way of peace, then all may live in peace. But what if all but one choose peace?" From this basic premise, Andrew Bard Schmookler has built a towering work of intellectual and spiritual insight, a book that will shatter many preconceived notions about how civilization has developed and why human history has been so filled with torment. In this new edition, Schmookler shows how, with the end of the Cold War, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to solve the problem of power that has plagued civilization.The Parable of the Tribes is a new vision of the story of humankind. It presents a radiant new synthesis of history, evolutionary biology, political theory, and psychology.

The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution

History

World

Houghton, Mifflin Company

The parable of the tribes is a theory of social evolution that offers answers to a myriad questions. By looking at human destiny within the broader contest of the story of life on earth, Schmookler provides a unique, often unsettling perspective on the dilemma of the civilized animal. This book explains that as people stepped across the threshold of civilization, they stumbled into a chaos that had never existed before. When human beings became the first creatures to invent their own way of life, their societies appeared to became the first creatures to invent their own way of life, their societies appeared to become free to develop as people might wish.

The Parable of the Tribes : The Problem of Power in Social Evolution

University of California Press

The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (Suny Environmental Public Policy)

The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (Suny Series in Environmental Public Policy)

State Univ of New York Pr

The market economy attends well to some dimensions of human life and does not even see others. It is sensitive to those values pertaining to what can be bought and sold but is blind to others that cannot be turned into commodities, such as the integrity of the natural world and the quality of human relationships. The market registers the costs and benefits to transactors acting as social atoms but is impervious to the costs of tearing apart the larger wholes―families, communities, the biosphere―that are vital to the quality of our lives. In The Illusion of Choice, Andrew Bard Schmookler shows how the market system unfolds according to a logic of its own, shaping everything within its domain―the landscape, social institutions, even human values―to serve its own inherent purposes. This understanding helps illuminate what has been most troubling to generations of Americans struggling to create a more humane society, and provides the conceptual tools by which we can become less the instruments of our powerful systems and more the masters of our destiny. Here is a powerful critique of the market, not couched in the Marxist economics of surplus value and exploitation, but drawing upon mainstream economics to shows how we all have a stake in making change. Schmookler sets out a program to help us humanize the market, not by overthrowing it but be correcting its biases, not by revolution but by strengthening the democratic process. Perhaps we can now add the most important choice to the abundance of choices the market provides us: the choice of developing into the kind of society we really want to be.

State University of New York Press

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war. "Imagine a group of tribes living within reach of one another. If all choose the way of peace, then all may live in peace. But what if all but one choose peace?" From this basic premise, Andrew Bard Schmookler has built a towering work of intellectual and spiritual insight, a book that will shatter many preconceived notions about how civilization has developed and why human history has been so filled with torment. In this new edition, Schmookler shows how, with the end of the Cold War, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to solve the problem of power that has plagued civilization. The Parable of the Tribes is a new vision of the story of humankind. It presents a radiant new synthesis of history, evolutionary biology, political theory, and psychology.

Social Sciences

This is a new view of the role of power in social evolution. It shows how, as human societies evolved, intersocietal conflicts necessarily developed, and how humanity can choose peace over war. "Goes far beyond our common folk knowledge about power." -- New York Times Book Review The Parable of the Tribes provides a new way of analyzing the human condition. This panoramic work, which incorporates history, philosophy, anthropology, and psychoanalytic theory within its sweep, is troubling and difficult; nevertheless, it is surprisingly readable and, in the end, hopeful." -- Esquire "In an age of intellectual timidity, Andrew Bard Schmookler's Parable of the Tribes is a work of immense scope and boldness. It makes a serious contribution to our understanding of war, peace, and civilization in a world spinning out of control." -- Daniel Yankelovitch "Imagine a group of tribes living within reach of one another. If all choose the way of peace, then all may live in peace. But what if all but one choose peace?" From this basic premise, Andrew Bard Schmookler has built a towering work of intellectual and spiritual insight, a book that will shatter many preconceived notions about how civilization has developed and why human history has been so filled with torment. In this new edition, Schmookler shows how, with the end of the Cold War, we now have an unprecedented opportunity to solve the problem of power that has plagued civilization. The Parable of the Tribes is a new vision of the story of humankind. It presents a radiant new synthesis of history, evolutionary biology, political theory, and psychology.

Using his own once-debilitating illness as the basis for his thoughts, the author explores how men and women find ways to deal with their own mortality

Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers

Medical Books

Henry Holt Co.

Sowings and Reapings: The Cycling of Good and Evil in the Human System

Knowledge Systems

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Fool's Gold: The Fate of Values in a World of Goods

Debating the Good Society: A Quest to Bridge America's Moral Divide

The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution

The Parable of the Tribes : The Problem of Power in Social Evolution

The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (Suny Series in Environmental Public Policy)

The Illusion of Choice: How the Market Economy Shapes Our Destiny (Suny Environmental Public Policy)

The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution

The Parable of the Tribes: The Problem of Power in Social Evolution

Living Posthumously: Confronting the Loss of Vital Powers

Sowings and Reapings: The Cycling of Good and Evil in the Human System