D. Paul Schafer

Gebundenes Buch

Culture

Beacon of the Future

Beschreibung

Culture is essential to everything we do and is going to play a very significant role in the world of the future. In spite of this, most of us have only a hazy understanding of culture and do not realize how it will affect individual, institutional, community, national, and international affairs. This volume delves into the domain of culture-both as a concept and as a reality-and proposes a formulation of the world system of the future according to culture's highest and most enduring principles. The author draws on many disciplines-anthropology, sociology, philosophy, cosmology, history, economics, and the arts-to make his case that culture and cultures should be accorded a central position in global development and human affairs in the future.

Autor

D. Paul Schafer has worked in the cultural field for more than fifty years as an author, advisor, educator, and administrator. He was assistant director of the Ontario Arts Council from 1967 to 1970, taught arts administration and cultural policy at York University and the University of Toronto, has undertaken many projects for UNESCO, and is founder and director of the World Culture Project. He has written many books on culture, including Culture: Beacon of the Future, Revolution or Renaissance: Making the Transition from an Economic Age to a Cultural Age, The Age of Culture, The Arts: Gateway to a Fulfilling Life and Cultural Age, and, more recently, The World as Culture: Cultivation of the Soul to the Cosmic Whole. He lives in Markham, Ontario, Canada.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780275964993
• ISBN-10: 027596499X
• Artikelnr.: 22019211