A Community Manifesto (Earthscan Paperback) - Softcover

Wright, Chris

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1853837342 ISBN 13: 9781853837340

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Civilizations fail when they become trapped in a way of looking at the world that no longer works. For many, globalization is pushing us to the edge of disaster - an onward march of blinkered vision, encouraging passivity, moral blindness and a culture of dependency. A Community Manifesto is an elegantly written polemic offering a new way of looking at our social, cultural and economic realities. Tackling the crucial dimensions of personal responsibility, consensus and community, it shows how we can find a new language through which we can reinvigorate our individual and social lives, developing the resourcefulness we need but which proves so difficult to cultivate. The vision it presents is persuasive and very timely - only by building community can human society evolve and progress.

About this title

About the Author:

Chris Wright is the author of "The Sufficient Community" (1997) and the founder and MD of a successful company for those with learning disabilities.

Review:

"Chris Wright's "The Community Manifesto" has much of the feel of Fritz Schumacher's 1960s classic "Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Matter" with oodles of honest-to-goodness common sense, knowledge in detail across a broad spectrum of 'worlds' and an armchair style that convinces without confronting. It is also ideologically very sound from a 'Fourth World' viewpoint with Chris Wright's long-held belief in the "power of community to transform our world" shines through from every page..an intellectual "tour de force." A deceptively easy read..and just the book to slip into." -- Peter Etherden, Fourth World Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1853837342
• ISBN 13: 9781853837340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 178