A Community Manifesto - Hardcover

Wright, Chris

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1853837334 ISBN 13: 9781853837333

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

For many, globalization is pushing us to the edge of disaster - an onward march of blinkered vision, encouraging passivity, moral blindness and dependence on being serviced. Civilizations fail when they become trapped in a way of looking at the world that no longer works. This volume seeks to offer a new way of looking at reality. Taking the crucial dimensions of personal responsibility, consensus and community, it shows how we can find a new language through which we can reinvigorate our lives and our societies, and develop the resourcefulness we need but which is so hard to cultivate. The authors demonstrate that only by building community can human society evolve and progress.

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Review:

"Chris Wright's "The Community Manifesto" has much of the feel of Fritz Schumacher's 1960s classic "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Matter" with oodles of honest-to-goodness common sense, knowledge in detail across a broad spectrum of 'worlds' and an armchair style that convinces without confronting. It is also ideologically very sound from a 'Fourth World' viewpoint with Chris Wright's long-held belief in the "power of community to transform our world" shines through from every page..an intellectual "tour de force." A deceptively easy read..and just the book to slip into." -- Peter Etherden, Fourth World Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1853837334
• ISBN 13: 9781853837333
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 184