Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century (American University Studies)

Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century is an original, pathbreaking, revolutionary, and totalizing critique of received Modernist ideas, including Modernist Utopianism. In that vein, it unseats virtually every dearly held myth of EuroModernist discourse. It offers a new episteme based on our true ontic nature – our anthropic species-being – as an offset and correction to all brands of EuroModernist idylls, be they of Left or Right, that have repeatedly brought the world to the brink of annihilation. In sum, this book argues that neither philosophy nor social science are tenable without a true, realist anthropology of the human species that sets limits to both political idealism and social engineering. Cover Contents Acknowledgments Preface: Change Foreword by Dr. Amit Goswami Introduction: Challenging Eurocentrism: 45 Theses Part I: In Crisis 1 Today 2 The Root Cause 3 Crisis, Disaster, Catastrophe: Up the Down Escalator 4 Anatomy of a Crisis Part II: The Economy 5 Where We Are 6 More Endgames 7 Free Markets 8 Les Folies Tragiques: The Droll Schoolgirl’s Guide to the World as It Is Today 9 The Bail-In 10 On Economics 11 On Capitalism (and Latter-day Debacles) 12 On Singaporeanisation: Or, Some Bitter Fruits of Globalization Part III: The State of Being 13 Anthropic Dualism: A Tale of Two (Sub)-Species—A Comment on ‘La Condition Humaine’ 14 Querying the Cosmos 15 The (Sub)Human Condition 16 Nostalgia, for the Future 17 A God That Failed? 18 The Knowledge Game 19 Toward Non-Centrism 20 The Bell of Atri Part IV: Decline 21 Rites of Passage 22 The Last Train 23 A World on the Wane: The Wherefore and the Why 24 Endgame? 25 The Eclipse Part V: Modernism 26 On Civilization 27 On Philosophy 28 Beyond Late Modernism 29 A Farewell 30 Rethinking ‘Democracy’ 31 East and West 32 And There Was Blight: Summary Notes on the European Saga 33 By Ideals Alone? 34 A Summing Up Part VI: Futures 35 The Future? 36 The Final Hour 37 Everything, Reconsidered 38 The Cosmos 39 The Day After Part VII: Eurocentrism 40 Eurocentrism 101: A Primer 41 Toward Dissolution 42 Eurocentrism and EuroModernism 43 Racism: A Personal Discursus 44 Explaining a Critique: (Euro)Modernism: Delusions, Debacles, and Defaults 45 Ancient Vedic Wisdom: Key Concepts Postface: Beyond Eurocentrism: The Next Frontier Bibliography Index "Farewell to Modernism : On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century is an original, pathbreaking, revolutionary, and totalizing critique of received Modernist ideas, including Modernist Utopianism. In that vein, it unseats virtually every dearly held myth of EuroModernist discourse. It offers a new episteme based on our true ontic nature--our anthropic species-being--as an offset and correction to all brands of EuroModernist idylls, be they of Left or Right, that have repeatedly brought the world to the brink of annihilation. In sum, this book argues that neither philosophy nor social science are tenable without a true, realist anthropology of the human species that sets limits to both political idealism and social engineering"--Publisher description __Farewell to Modernism: On Human Devolution in the Twenty-First Century__