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Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
Category: History
In 1999, Saul began arguing that globalism was collapsing. In 2005, he laid out this scenario in The Collapse of Globalism. Now Saul has enlarged the book, showing how today's crisis came about and suggesting what to do next. Saul describes the financial crisis as a mere boil to be lanced. The far more ...Show more
Dark Diversions: A Traveller's Tale by John Ralston Saul
Category: Fiction
In Dark Diversions, acclaimed author John Ralston Saul stages a black comedy of international proportions that takes the reader from New York to Paris to Morocco to Haiti. When he's not encountering dictators in Third World hot spots, Saul's unnamed journalist narrator moves in privileged circles on bot ...Show more
On Equilibrium by John Ralston Saul
Category: Culture
In 'On Equlibrium', John Ralston Saul explains how our different qualities give us the intelligence, self-confidence and practical ability to think and act as responsible individuals. In this book he treats a number of fundamental questions about the human condition, such as 'What are ethics?' and 'What ...Show more
The Collapse of Globalism by John Ralston Saul
Category: Reference
Globalization is dead. Nation states are resurgent, international trade has enriched the few rather than the promised many, and democratic values are on the retreat. The shining-eyed optimism of more open, more equal societies has given way to demagoguery and nationalism. As the problems of immigration, ...Show more
The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World by John Ralston Saul
Category: Fiction
Despite the near-religious conviction with which it was originally conceived, a growing vagueness now surrounds its original promise that nation-states were heading toward irrelevance, to be replaced by the power of global markets; that economics, not politics or arms, would determine the course of huma ...Show more
The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul
Category: Fiction
"How are citizens to enter into a public debate if the concepts which define our society and decide the manner in which we are governed are open neither to understanding nor to questioning?"According to bestselling novelist and essayist John Ralston Saul, the ramifications of asking this question are en ...Show more
The Doubter's CompanionA Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense by John Ralston Saul
Category: Reference
A long and distinguished tradition of writers have used the form of a satirical dictionary to undermine the received ideas of their day. Voltaire wrote a sharply humorous "Philosophical Dictionary," while Samuel Johnson's dictionary of the English language was derisive and opinionated. These early dicti ...Show more
The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
Category: Culture
This work argues that the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling "corporatist" structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats, as it promotes the segmentation of society into competing interest groups and ethnic blocks.
The Unconscious Civilization by John Ralston Saul
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In this intellectual tour de force John Ralston Saul argues that our society is only superficially based on the individual and democracy, and the West now toils unconsciously in the grip of a stifling corporatist structure that serves the needs of business managers and technocrats as it promotes the seg ...Show more
Voltaire's Bastards : The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul
Category: unmapped
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West is a sweeping and provocative exploration of nothing less than the political, economic, social, and cultural origins of Western society. With great daring and originality, John Ralston Saul dissects the contradictions, delusions, and illusions ...Show more
Voltaire's Bastards - The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul
Category: Literature
With a new Introduction by the author, this erudite and brilliantly readable book ("The Observer," London) expertly dissects the political, economic, and social origins of Western civilization to reveal a culture cripplingly enslaved to crude notions of rationality and expertise. With a new introduction ...Show more
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