The Unconscious Civilization
by John Ralston Saul
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Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in the 1995 Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups.
The paradox of our situation is that knowledge has not made us conscious. Instead, we have sought refuge in a world of illusion where language is cut off from reality.
Reconnecting language to reality, clarifying what we mean by individualism and democracy, making these realities central to the citizen's life, identifying ideologies in order to control them, these are among the first elements of equilibrium which Saul proposes in these lectures.
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- Title
- The Unconscious Civilization
- Author
- John Ralston Saul
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
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- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140264647
- ISBN 13
- 9780140264647
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Australia Ltd
- Place of Publication
- Ringwood
- Date Published
- 1997
- Keywords
- john ralston saul, unconscious civilization, society, democracy, massey, lecture,
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- Self Help;
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