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JIHAD VS. MCWORLD is an essential text for anyone who wants to understand the challenges facing us after the tragic events of September 11, 2001 and in light of the current conflict in the Middle East. In a groundbreaking work, political scientist Benjamin R. Barber offers a penetrating analysis of the central conflict of our times: consumerist capitalism versus religious and tribal fundamentalism. These diametrically opposed but intertwined forces are tearing apart - and bringing together - the world as we know it, undermining democracy and the nation-state on which it depends. On the one hand, capitalism on the global level is rapidly dissolving the social and economic barriers between nations, transforming the world's diverse populations into a blandly uniform market. On the other hand, ethnic, religious, and racial hatreds are fragmenting the political landscape into smaller and smaller tribal units. JIHAD VS. MCWORLD is the term that Barber has coined to describe the powerful and paradoxical interdependence of these forces. In this important book, now more timely than ever before, he explores the alarming repercussions of this potent dialectic and in his new introduction sketches a democratic response to terrorism.
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Benjamin R. Barber is the Whitman Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University and the director of the Walt Whitman Center for the Culture and Politics of Democracy. He is the author of numerous books, including the political classic Strong Democracy as well as An Aristocracy of Everyone. With Patrick Watson, Barber also created and wrote the prizewinning television series and book The Struggle for Democracy. He writes regularly for Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly, and many other publications. He is married to the dancer and choreographer Leah Kreutzer.
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Condition: Bueno. : En este innovador trabajo, el científico político Benjamin R. Barber ofrece un análisis penetrante del conflicto central de nuestros tiempos: el capitalismo consumista versus el fundamentalismo religioso y tribal. Estas fuerzas diametralmente opuestas pero entrelazadas están destrozando y uniendo al mundo tal como lo conocemos, socavando la democracia y el estado-nación del que depende. El capitalismo a nivel global está disolviendo rápidamente las barreras sociales y económicas entre las naciones, transformando las diversas poblaciones del mundo en un mercado uniformemente insípido. Por otro lado, los odios étnicos, religiosos y raciales están fragmentando el panorama político en unidades tribales cada vez más pequeñas. Jihad Vs McWorld es el término que Barber ha acuñado para describir la poderosa y paradójica interdependencia de estas fuerzas. En este importante libro, ahora más oportuno que nunca, explora las alarmantes repercusiones de esta potente dialéctica y, en su nueva introducción, esboza una respuesta democrática al terrorismo. EAN: 9780552163842 Tipo: Libros Categoría: Filosofía Título: Jihad Vs McWorld Autor: Benjamin R. Barber Idioma: en Páginas: 432 Formato: tapa blanda. Seller Inventory # Happ-2026-05-06-3d47d85e
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