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In Search of the Good Society

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In Search of the Good Society

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An Essay on Love, Hope, Art and Social Progress

In Search of the Good Society

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In Search of the Good Society book

An Essay on Love, Hope, Art and Social Progress
ByMalcolm McIntosh
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2017
eBook Published 10 November 2017
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.9774/gleaf.9781351241854
Pages 288
eBook ISBN 9781351241854
Subjects Economics, Finance, Business & Industry, Environment and Sustainability
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McIntosh, M. (2017). In Search of the Good Society: An Essay on Love, Hope, Art and Social Progress (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.9774/gleaf.9781351241854

ABSTRACT

Compelling reading, this book both reinforces and elevates the role of art in the exploration and analysis of the concepts of democracy, globalization and capitalism. In the book, the author describes a post-human world, a state we have already entered. But how should we think about it, given we have already been co-opted? Can we articulate the future outside the false discipline that the market often dictates, beyond the clutches of a few social media companies, and maintain our rich diversities while holding on to those things that make life possible and worthwhile: love, hope and art?

Running throughout the book is the central theme of uncertainty and divergence. It is uncompromising in asking the question about the need for a new global creation story, which has at its core not the certainties of one defined creation myth but the need to feel comfortable with the uncertainty principle both in physics and the political economy. It is up to artists, scientists and philosophers to articulate this wonder and to help us write a new global creation story based on art (the arts), uncertainty, diversity, risk and wonder – and of course knowledge. This book has the capacity to both clarify and re-shape your thinking.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |16 pages

Introduction: The reflective observer

chapter 1|39 pages

This century’s new creation myth

chapter 2|132 pages

Good capitalism: love, hope, art and progress

chapter 3|27 pages

Health, wealth and social progress

chapter 4|26 pages

In search of the good society in the post-human world

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