Jeremy Rifkin, one of the most thought-provoking American thinkers, offers a thrilling take on the history of humanity from a social and altruistic perspective. An opening observation: never has the world seemed so closely bound (by the media, business, culture) and also so brutally divided (by wars, financial crises, global warming...) than it currently does. Never have our mental structures been so out of touch with the new realities which we have created. Drawing on economics, politics, psychology, science, natural history and technological evolution, he shows how man is now condemned to a remodelling of his consciousness: over the course of the 21st century we must reach a state of mind approaching universal empathy, which will evidence the ability of our species to survive and prosper.
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