Between Two Ages 0313234981, 9780313234989
Zbigniew Brzezinski's range of investigation sweeps from New Left politics to the bureaucratization of Soviet commu
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English Year 1970
Table of contents :
PART I - The Global Impact of the Technetronic Revolution
1. The Onset of the Technetronic Age
New Social Patterns
Social Explosion/Implosion
Global Absorption
2. The Ambivalent Disseminator
The American Impact
New Imperialism?
3. Global Ghettos
Prospects for Change
The Subjective Transformation
The Political Vacuum
4. Global Fragmentation and Unification
Fragmented Congestion
Toward a Planetary Consciousness
PART II The Age of Volatile Belief
1. The Quest for a Universal Vision
The Universal Religions
The National Identity
Ideological Universalism
2. Turbulence within Institutionalized Beliefs
Institutional Marxism
Organized Christianity
Privatization of Belief
3. Histrionics as History in Transition
Escape from Reason
The Political Dimension
Historical Discontinuity
4. Ideas and Ideals beyond Ideology
The Quest for Equality
Syncretic Belief
PART III Communism: The Problem of Relevance
1. The Stalinist Paradox
The Necessity of Stalinism
Imperial Pacification
2. The Bureaucratization of Boredom
The Innovative Relationship
Defensive Orthodoxy
Perspective on Tomorrow
3. The Soviet Future
Internal Dilemmas
Alternative Paths
The Problem of Vitality
4. Sectarian Communism
Phases
Assimilated Communisms
China and Global Revolution
PART IV The American Transition
1. The Third American Revolution
The Pace and Thrust of Progress
The Uncertainty of Progress
The Futility of Politics
2. The New Left Reaction
Infantile Ideology
Revolutionaries in Search of Revolution
The Historic Function of the Militant Left
3. The Crisis of Liberalism
The Liberal Janus
The Price of Victorious Skepticism
The End of Liberal Democracy?
PART V America and the World
1. The American Future
Participatory Pluralism
Change in Cultural Formation
Rational Humanism
2. International Prospects
The Revolutionary Process
USA/USSR: Less Intensive, More Extensive Rivalry
Policy Implications
3. A Community of the Developed Nations
Western Europe and Japan
Structure and Focus
The Communist States
Risks and Advantages
PART I - The Global Impact of the Technetronic Revolution
1. The Onset of the Technetronic Age
New Social Patterns
Social Explosion/Implosion
Global Absorption
2. The Ambivalent Disseminator
The American Impact
New Imperialism?
3. Global Ghettos
Prospects for Change
The Subjective Transformation
The Political Vacuum
4. Global Fragmentation and Unification
Fragmented Congestion
Toward a Planetary Consciousness
PART II The Age of Volatile Belief
1. The Quest for a Universal Vision
The Universal Religions
The National Identity
Ideological Universalism
2. Turbulence within Institutionalized Beliefs
Institutional Marxism
Organized Christianity
Privatization of Belief
3. Histrionics as History in Transition
Escape from Reason
The Political Dimension
Historical Discontinuity
4. Ideas and Ideals beyond Ideology
The Quest for Equality
Syncretic Belief
PART III Communism: The Problem of Relevance
1. The Stalinist Paradox
The Necessity of Stalinism
Imperial Pacification
2. The Bureaucratization of Boredom
The Innovative Relationship
Defensive Orthodoxy
Perspective on Tomorrow
3. The Soviet Future
Internal Dilemmas
Alternative Paths
The Problem of Vitality
4. Sectarian Communism
Phases
Assimilated Communisms
China and Global Revolution
PART IV The American Transition
1. The Third American Revolution
The Pace and Thrust of Progress
The Uncertainty of Progress
The Futility of Politics
2. The New Left Reaction
Infantile Ideology
Revolutionaries in Search of Revolution
The Historic Function of the Militant Left
3. The Crisis of Liberalism
The Liberal Janus
The Price of Victorious Skepticism
The End of Liberal Democracy?
PART V America and the World
1. The American Future
Participatory Pluralism
Change in Cultural Formation
Rational Humanism
2. International Prospects
The Revolutionary Process
USA/USSR: Less Intensive, More Extensive Rivalry
Policy Implications
3. A Community of the Developed Nations
Western Europe and Japan
Structure and Focus
The Communist States
Risks and Advantages
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