The unconscious civilization

Saul, John Ralston 1947- (author.). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Added Author).

Summary: "Our society, John Ralston Saul argues in his 1995 CBC Massey Lectures, is only superficially based on the individual and democracy. Increasingly it is conformist and corporatist, a society in which legitimacy lies with specialist or interest groups and decisions are made through constant negotiations between these groups. The paradox of our situation is that knowledge has not made us conscious. Instead, we have sought refuge in a world of illusion where language is cut off from reality. Reconnecting language to reality, clarifying what we mean by individualism and democracy, making these realities central to the citizen's life, identifying ideologies in order to control them, these are among the first elements of equilibrium which Saul proposes in these lectures."--

Record details

ISBN: 9780684832579
ISBN: 9780887845765 (pbk.)
ISBN: 9780887845864
ISBN: 0684832577
ISBN: 0887845762 (pbk.)
ISBN: 088784586X
Physical Description: print
199 pages ; 21 cm. : ill.
Publisher: Concord, Ontario : Anansi, 1995.
Copyright: ©1995.

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Broadcast in November 1995 as part of CBC Radio's Ideas series"--Series t.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.