Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis: Policy, Process, and Presidential Vision

David Ray Griffin · Richard A. Falk

Jul 1993 · State University of New York Press

About this ebook

This book argues that the planetary crisis, which has been produced by modernity, demands a postmodern politics, especially in the United States, the chief embodiment and exporter of modernity. What is needed is an America that promotes a new world order that is genuinely new—one based on a concern for the human race as a whole, and on a sustainable relationship between the human species and the rest of the biosphere. John B. Cobb, Jr., Richard Falk, David Ray Griffin, Wes Jackson, Frank Kelly, Frances Moore Lappé, Joanna Macy, Douglas Sloan, Jim Wallis, and Roger Wilkins write about various dimensions of this postmodern politics, including its educational aims, morality, time-consciousness, and ecological sensibility, its agricultural and other environmental policies, its truly democratic process, and a postmodern presidency. This book provides the most complete prescription yet for the kind of presidential leadership we need and the kind of transformation in the body politic necessary to evoke and complement such leadership.

About the author

David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies, and President of the Center for a Postmodern World. He is the author of God and Religion in the Postmodern World and Evil Revisited and editor of The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals; Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions; and Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art. Richard Falk is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and rapporteur of the Global Civilization Project, an undertaking of the World Order Models Project. He is the author of Explorations at the Edge of Time: Prospects for the World Order; Revolutionaries and Functionaries: The Dual Face of Terrorism; A Study of Future Worlds; and (with Robert Jay Lifton) Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism.