Publisher's Synopsis
This publication is the second anthology derived from UNESCO's '21st-Century Talks' series of interdisciplinary discussions involving participants from a range of fields including science, philosophy, politics, art and literature, education, sociology and cultural studies. It contains a selection of papers which consider issues of humanity, ethics and values in the 21st century in the context of increasing globalisation and rapid technological and scientific developments. It is divided into four chapters which look at: The Future of Values; Globalisation, New Technologies and Culture; Towards New Social Contracts; and Science, Knowledge and Foresight; and includes papers written by Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Delors, Jacques Derrida, Nadine Gordimer, Edgar Morin, George Annas, Alain Touraine and Edward Wilson.
