Free Download Yakov Rabkin, Mikhail Minakov, "Demodernization: A Future in the Past"
English | 2018 | pages: 424 | ISBN: 3838211405 | PDF | 2,2 mb
Medical doctors driving taxis, architects selling beer on street corners, scientific institutes closed down amid rusting carcasses of industrial plants―these images became common at the turn of the twenty-first century in many once modern "civilized" countries. In quite a few of them, longtime neighbors came to kill each other, apparently motivated by the newly discovered differences of religion, language, or origin. Civil nationalism gave way to tribal, ethnic, and confessional conflict. Rational arguments of a geopolitical nature have been replaced by claims of self-righteousness and moral superiority.