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This study provides a much needed Third World perspective on the "New World Order" (NWO). Calling on the work of critical scholars from the underdeveloped world, Mike and Peggy Rivage-Seul dispel reigning NWO illusions. These include the conviction that the world is better off with the Cold War ended, that the world's poor bear primary responsibility for their condition, that the free market can solve the very problems it has created, that ideology has disappeared, that God underwrites the human sacrifice required by the emergent brave new world, and that utopias have outlived their usefulness. According to the Rivage-Seuls, such illusions prevent inhabitants of the developed world from recognizing the literal impossibility of continuing economics of untargeted economic growth celebrated by triumphalistic free marketeers. Left to itself, they argue, the market not only manufactures increasing quantities of "throw-away" people, it destroys the very foundations on which untargeted growth depends, environmentally speaking. Not content with negative criticism, the Rivage-Seuls show the necessity of establishing North/South solidarity and reviving Judeo-Christian traditions of community concern, selflessness, and humanism. A Kinder and Gentler Tyranny provides students of political and intellectual history, economics, Third World studies, theology and contemporary studies with an antidote to the prevailing conviction that the human race has somehow reached the end of history.
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D. MICHAEL RIVAGE-SEUL is Professor of General Studies and Religion at Berea College in Kentucky.
MARGUERITE K. RIVAGE-SEUL is Director of Women's Studies and Associate Professor in the General Education Program at Berea College.
Both are activist scholars and have done research in Brazil, Central America, Cuba, and Africa. They have collaborated on chapters in edited works on Paulo Freire and critical pedagogy, including Peter McLaren's Politics of Liberation (1994).
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Hardcover. Condition: Good-. Cloth hardcover, xiii + 161 pages. Ex-university library, marked 'withdrawn', with external stamps on outer page edges and internal ownership & catalogue markings on front endpapers. Brown staining (looks like makeup) on p.21 - text readability is not affected. A pen line along one paragraph on p.44. Else a good copy with unmarked text. Boards show handling marks, rubbing, minor label residue on lower spine. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This study provides a much needed Third World perspective on the "New World Order" (NWO). Calling on the work of critical scholars from the underdeveloped world, Mike and Peggy Rivage-Seul dispel reigning NWO illusions. These include the conviction that the world is better off with the Cold War ended, that the world's poor bear primary responsibility for their condition, that the free market can solve the very problems it has created, that ideology has disappeared, that God underwrites the human sacrifice required by the emergent brave new world, and that utopias have outlived their usefulness. According to the Rivage-Seuls, such illusions prevent inhabitants of the developed world from recognizing the literal impossibility of continuing economics of untargeted economic growth celebrated by triumphalistic free marketeers. Left to itself, they argue, the market not only manufactures increasing quantities of "throw-away" people, it destroys the very foundations on which untargeted growth depends, environmentally speaking. Not content with negative criticism, the Rivage-Seuls show the necessity of establishing North/South solidarity and reviving Judeo-Christian traditions of community concern, selflessness, and humanism. A Kinder and Gentler Tyranny provides students of political and intellectual history, economics, Third World studies, theology and contemporary studies with an antidote to the prevailing conviction that the human race has somehow reached the end. -- Contents: 1. Illusion: Everyone Is Better Off Without the Soviets; 2. Illusion: The Poor Are to Blame; 3. Illusion: Market Is the Solution Not the Problem; 4. Illusion: Ideology Is Dead; 5. Illusion: God Requires Human Sacrifice; 6. Illusion: Utopia Is a Four Letter Word. Seller Inventory # 005414
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