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Convergence: The Globalization of Mind
"Horesh's perceptive and thoughtful views... are in the great tradition of past works by Orwell, Albert Camus, Hannah Arendt, and Henry Thoreau." Andy Heintz, author of Dissidents of the International Left
Humanity is faced with an array of global challenges we are ill equipped to handle. Climate change and nuclear proliferation, food security and global pandemic disease, each concern us all. Yet, we lack the global institutions through which they might be solved because most people put the needs of their own groups first. However, while the great challenges of the twenty-first century are largely global, few people think of themselves as global citizens. Meanwhile, few bring the same balance and maturity to global issues that they do to more national concerns.
The world is vast and overwhelming. Making sense of it requires heightened knowledge, greater empathy, and stronger ethical commitments. The process of developing these capacities might best be described as the globalization of mind--and it is just getting under way. But thinking globally will become easier as global interconnectivity increases, as global institutions grow in scope, as more people are exposed to greater human diversity, and we increasingly devote ourselves to solving global challenges.
There is now a wide literature on social and economic globalization, moral and cultural cosmopolitanism. Yet, comparatively little has been written on its psychological effects, and few if any treatises grapple with what it will take to make sense of such a staggeringly vast world. The Globalization of Mind is a magisterial exploration of the challenges that lie in wait, raising as many questions as it answers, and all the while deepening the readers' own global thinking.
Humanity is faced with an array of global challenges we are ill equipped to handle. Climate change and nuclear proliferation, food security and global pandemic disease, each concern us all. Yet, we lack the global institutions through which they might be solved because most people put the needs of their own groups first. However, while the great challenges of the twenty-first century are largely global, few people think of themselves as global citizens. Meanwhile, few bring the same balance and maturity to global issues that they do to more national concerns.
The world is vast and overwhelming. Making sense of it requires heightened knowledge, greater empathy, and stronger ethical commitments. The process of developing these capacities might best be described as the globalization of mind--and it is just getting under way. But thinking globally will become easier as global interconnectivity increases, as global institutions grow in scope, as more people are exposed to greater human diversity, and we increasingly devote ourselves to solving global challenges.
There is now a wide literature on social and economic globalization, moral and cultural cosmopolitanism. Yet, comparatively little has been written on its psychological effects, and few if any treatises grapple with what it will take to make sense of such a staggeringly vast world. The Globalization of Mind is a magisterial exploration of the challenges that lie in wait, raising as many questions as it answers, and all the while deepening the readers' own global thinking.
318 pages, Paperback
First published November 10, 2014
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