TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rifkin,Jeremy
TI  - The empathic civilization: the race to global consciousness in a world in crisis 
SN  - 9781585427659
AV  - BJ1475 .R54 2009
U1  - 901 Rif/Emp 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - J.P. Tarcher/Penguin
KW  - Empathy
KW  - Conduct of life
KW  - Civilization, Modern
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Forecasting
KW  - Twenty-first century
KW  - Forecasts
KW  - Social prediction
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [643]-656) and index; The hidden paradox of human history -- The new view of human nature -- A sentient interpretation of biological evolution -- Becoming human -- Rethinking the meaning of the human journey -- The ancient theological brain and patriarchal economy -- Cosmopolitan Rome and the rise of urban Christianity -- The soft industrial revolution of the late medieval era and the birth of humanism -- Ideological thinking in a modern market economy -- Psychological consciousness in a postmodern existential world -- The climb to global peak empathy -- The planetary entropic abyss -- The emerging era of distributed capitalism -- The theatrical self in an improvisational society -- Biosphere consciousness in a climax economy
N2  - Bestselling social critic Jeremy Rifkin shows that the disconnection between our vision for the world and our ability to realize that vision lies in the current state of human consciousness
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2009036616-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1008/2009036616-d.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1204/2009036616-s.html
ER  -