Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society : Explorations in Social Morphogenesis / by Andrea M. Maccarini.
Maccarini, Andrea M.
2019
H61-H61.62
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Title Deep Change and Emergent Structures in Global Society : Explorations in Social Morphogenesis / by Andrea M. Maccarini.
Author Maccarini, Andrea M.
Edition 1st ed. 2019.
ISBN 9783030136246
3030136248
9783030136239 (print)
303013623X
9783030136253 (print)
3030136256
9783030136260 (print)
3030136264
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13624-6
Imprint Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (XIII, 287 p. 15 illus. :) online resource.
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-030-13624-6 doi
Call Number H61-H61.62
Dewey Decimal Classification 300.1
Summary This book addresses the problem of the transition to new forms of social order in the global world. As a haunting sense of historical discontinuity pervades Western societies, it offers a fresh perspective on the issue, focusing on two basic coordinates to pinpoint the developmental path of rapidly changing societies: one is the mechanism of unfettered social morphogenesis and the other is the specific kind of societal unification brought about by globalization, with the related closure of the world. The book draws on the theoretical work produced in the five volumes of the Springer series ''Social Morphogenesis'' and applies it in a sustained and concerted approach to the empirical examination of macro-social change. The first part of the book presents the social ontology of the morphogenetic approach, and discusses its capacity to interpret macrosocial transitions. The second part then draws a prospective outline of the social formation known as the 'morphogenic society,' showing how unbound morphogenesis in a globalized world shapes such crucial phenomena as social norms, war and violence, openness and closure as adaptive responses from social organizations. Lastly, the third part examines the anthropological consequences of these societal trends, focusing on self and character as well as on human fulfillment and the 'good life'.
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Part 1: THE MORPHOGENETIC APPROACH: DEBATES AND EXTENSIONS.- Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Analysing the morphogenic society. Regularities and social ontology
Chapter 3. After late modernity? The morphogenetic approach as hermeneutics of transition
Part 2: AN OUTLINE OF THE MORPHOGENIC SOCIETY
Chapter 4. Adaptive responses to unbound morphogenesis: openness and closure in turbulent times
Chapter 5. War and violence in the morphogenic society
Chapter 6. The logic of opportunity and its normative (dis)contents
Chapter 7. Formations of the secular. Transcendence in a society without horizon
Part 3: HUMANITY COUNTS. ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF UNBOUND MORPHOGENESIS
Chapter 8. The pressure on the human. Self and character in the new social order
Chapter 9. A good life without horizon?
Chapter 10. Conclusion. A glimpse on morphogenic futures.

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