Harmony and Exchange
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Harmony and Exchange

Toward a Legoic Society

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Toward a Legoic Society

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This book examines two main concepts – harmony and exchange – in relation to the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of human life. As such, what differentiates humans from other living species are the possibility of understanding a context and the willingness to collaborate and create complex models of exchange. Specifically, emotion and intellect are established as fundamental dimensions of our being which play key roles in exchange with others and dealing with our environment.

This text provides a new perspective that examines «being and becoming» in a multidimensional exchange framework, concentrating on the analysis of a utilitarian society which reduces human beings to operators and servants of techno-scientific machinery. This approach to validity demands conformity to social and political norms which have lost touch with the intellectual and emotional expressions of the citizens of the world, resulting in an environment of alienation, violence, and subordination of humans to meaningless institutions and positivistic ideologies. The quest for true harmony and collaborative exchange in contemporary societies requires the recognition of multiple sites of subjectivity, self-certainty, and global domination of techno-scientific rationality. This book's primary application towards a Legoic society is built on a critical pedagogy committed to dialogue and exchange, and is an environment that is accompanied by the process of development of a critical consciousness based on new systems of agency, moving toward a fundamentally non-reductionist praxis of the socio-political dimension of living together.

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Publisher
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Year
2017
ISBN
9781453919217
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1. The Harmonic Theory
  7. Chapter 2. Autonomy and Integration
  8. Chapter 3. Violence and Serfdom: Erosion of Autonomy
  9. Chapter 4. Harmonic Transformation
  10. Chapter 5. The Closing of the Universe of Exchange
  11. Chapter 6. Living in Excellence: Towards the Legoic Society
  12. Chapter 7. Peace and Harmony
  13. Conclusion
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index