From C-SPAN2's Book TV, an hour with Jeremy Rifkin discussing his most recent (and most important) book - The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis. This book should be a must read for anyone interested in how we got to this place and time and how to move forward.His model of empathy development in Western Civilization follows a pattern that looks quite a bit like models by Gebser, Graves, and Wilber. Without ever using the terms, his model also takes in all of the quadrants in one way or another.
The Empathic Civilization: The Race to Global Consciousness in a World in Crisis
Jeremy Rifkin
About the Program
Jeremy Rifkin argues that a new science of human nature is emerging that demonstrates that humans are not as aggressive, materialistic and self-interested as once believed. He says humans are driven by empathy and cooperation. Mr. Rifkin spoke at Politics and Prose Bookstore in Washington, DC.
About the Authors
Jeremy Rifkin
Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends (foet.org). His 17 books include The Hydrogen Economy, The European Dream, and The End of Work.
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