Zaki Laidi

A World Without Meaning

The Crisis of Meaning in International Politics

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Produktbeschreibung

In this provocative and incisive book, Zaki Laidi argues that as our world becomes ever larger, our ability to find meaning in it diminishes. With the end of communism came the end of the intimate alliance between power and ideology. No power in our globalised world can any longer claim to provide meaning. In despair we look back to old models (religious traditions, nationalism, ethnicity) to give us a sense of identity. But in a globalised world in a permanent state of flux, just how effective are these old certainties?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 135mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780415167185
• ISBN-10: 0415167183
• Artikelnr.: 21387100

Autorenporträt

Zaki Laidi is a researcher at the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationale. He teaches at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris and at John Hopkins University in Bologna.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: itinerary
Introduction: the divorce of meaning and power
1 The meaning of the Cold War
2 The fall of the Wall: the end of the Enlightenment
3 Out of step with time
4 Universalism runs out of steam
5 Europe and the crisis of meaning
6 The loss of the link between nations
7 Global social links (1): conflicts without identity
8 Global social links (2): actors without a project
9 Can Japan provide meaning?
10 The regionalization of meaning
11 Europe as meaning
12 Asia
or regionalism without a goal
13 America as a 'social power'
Conclusion: the post Cold War
a world of its own
Notes
Bibliography
Index