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Integral Polity

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Integral Polity book

Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy

Integral Polity

DOI link for Integral Polity

Integral Polity book

Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy
ByRonnie Lessem, Ibrahim Abouleish, Louis Herman
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588964
Pages 376 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315588964
SubjectsEconomics, Finance, Business & Industry, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Lessem, R., Abouleish, I., Herman, L. (2015). Integral Polity. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315588964

Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has therefore become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century. Taking as a starting point the ground-breaking work of the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development this book applies such an ’integral’ notion to the realms of business, economics and enterprise. To be successful, an integral approach must recognise the nuances of its environment - an integral approach in India is different from that in Indonesia, or Iceland, and they may in fact complement rather than conflict. Therefore this book also provides a fascinating alignment of such ’integrality’ with, and between different ’southern’ and ’eastern’, ’northern’ and ’western’ worlds. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease of life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt, realm of the political.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |22 pages

Prologue An Introduction to Integral Polity: Nature, Culture, Society, Economy

part I|2 pages

In Pursuit of Integrity

chapter 1|12 pages

Disintegrated to Integral Polity

chapter 2|12 pages

The Origins of Political Order

part II|2 pages

Natural and Communal Orientation: Southern Polity

chapter 3|11 pages

Natural Grounding: Constituting Africa

chapter 4|12 pages

Natural Emergence: Tradition and Modernity

chapter 5|11 pages

Communal Navigation:Development and Auto-centricity

chapter 6|12 pages

Natural Rapoko Effect: Food Security at Zimbabwe’s Chinyika

part III|2 pages

Cultural and Spiritual Orientation: Eastern Polity

chapter 7|12 pages

Spiritual Grounding: India’s Human Cycle

chapter 8|18 pages

Cultural and Spiritual Emergence: Spiral Dynamics

chapter 9|10 pages

Cultural, Political and Economic Navigation: Threefolding

chapter 10|14 pages

Conscious, Powerful, Economic Effect: Sri Lanka’s Sarvodaya

part IV|2 pages

Technological and Societal Orientation: Northern Polity

chapter 11|12 pages

Social and Political Grounding: Europe Living in Truth

chapter 12|12 pages

Emergent Innovation: Technology, Management, Aesthetics

chapter 13|12 pages

Navigation: Self-Management/Cooperative Association

chapter 14|18 pages

Social and Technical Effect: Integral Green Slovenia

part V|2 pages

Economic and Environmental Orientation: Western Polity

chapter 15|12 pages

Environmental and Economic Grounding: The American Soul

chapter 16|16 pages

Natural, Cultural, Social, Economic Emergence

ByFuture Primal

chapter 17|12 pages

Political and Environmental Navigation: Politics of Nature

chapter 18|6 pages

Economic and Environmental Effect: Brazil’s Curitiba

part VI|2 pages

Nature, Culture, Society and Economy: Centring Polity

chapter 19|14 pages

Integral Ground: Holy Qur’an: Start Sustainable Development

chapter 20|14 pages

Emergent Integral: Harmony: Sustainable Development Anew

chapter 21|18 pages

Integral Navigation: The Potential of the Arab Spring

chapter 22|22 pages

Integral Effect: Sekem – Integral Sustainable Development

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