Integral Polity : Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy.
Title:
Integral Polity : Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy.
Author:
Lessem, Ronnie.
ISBN:
9781472442482
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (376 pages)
Series:
Transformation and Innovation
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- About the Authors -- Prologue: An Introduction to Integral Polity: Nature, Culture, Society, Economy -- Part 1: Introduction -- Part 2: Southern: Nature/Community: Earth: Direct Democracy -- Part 3: Eastern: Culture/Spirituality: Air: Big Picture -- Part 4: Northern: Society/Technology: Water: Interaction -- Part 5: Environment/Economics: Fire: Individuation -- Part 6: Integrally-Based Islamic Polity: Mandala as a Whole -- References -- I In Pursuit of Integrity -- 1 Disintegrated to Integral Polity -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Frames of State: Commonwealth to Leadership -- 1.3. Forms of State -- 1.4. Towards an Awakened Islamic Consciousness -- 1.5. Conclusion: Necessity of the State/Options of Governance -- 1.6. References -- 2 The Origins of Political Order -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The State of Nature -- 2.3. Social Community to Private Property -- 2.4. The Power of the State -- 2.5. The Rule of Law -- 2.6. The Rise of Political Accountability -- 2.7. Conclusion: Political Development Then and Now -- 2.8. References -- II Natural and Communal Orientation: Southern Polity -- 3 Natural Grounding: Constituting Africa -- 3.1. Introduction to Black Civilization -- 3.2. Towards an Original African Constitution -- 3.3. Conclusion: The Direction of Civilization -- 3.4. References -- 4 Natural Emergence: Tradition and Modernity -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Philosophy and Politics -- 4.3. Tradition and Modernity -- 4.4. Conclusion -- 4.5. References -- 5 Communal Navigation: Development and Auto-centricity -- 5.1. Introduction: Africa's General Crisis -- 5.2. The Nature of the Auto-centric Approach -- 5.3. Towards a Post-Cold War Global Order -- 5.4. Conclusion: Prospects for Auto-centric Development -- 5.5. References -- 6 Natural Rapoko Effect: Food Security at Zimbabwe's Chinyika.
6.1. Introduction: Towards an Integral African Polity -- 6.2. A Son Was Raised from the House of Gutu -- 6.3. Mai Mlambo: Towards a Democratic Community -- 6.4. Conclusion -- 6.5. References -- III Cultural and Spiritual Orientation: Eastern Polity -- 7 Spiritual Grounding: India's Human Cycle -- 7.1. Introduction: Nature/Community to Culture/Spirituality -- 7.2. The Human Cycle -- 7.3. The Discovery of the Nation-Soul -- 7.4. Conclusion: The Curve of the Rational Age -- 7.5. References -- 8 Cultural and Spiritual Emergence: Spiral Dynamics -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. Comparison of Major Schools in Spiral Dynamic's Theory -- 8.3. Description of the Different Human Niches -- 8.4. Conclusion: Mandala Centre for Integral Development -- 8.5. References -- 9 Cultural, Political and Economic Navigation: Threefolding -- 9.1. Introduction: Liberty, Equality, Fraternity -- 9.2. The Social Question: Cultural, Political, Economic -- 9.3. Shaping Globalization -- 9.4. Threefolding and the Example of Philippine Agenda 21 -- 9.5. Conclusion: Civil Society and the Beginning of History -- 9.6. References -- 10 Conscious, Powerful, Economic Effect: Sri Lanka's Sarvodaya -- 10.1. Introduction to Sarvodaya -- 10.2. The Awakening of All -- 10.3. Conclusion -- 10.4. References -- IV Technological and Societal Orientation: Northern Polity -- 11 Social and Political Grounding: Europe Living in Truth -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Elements of the Social and Political System -- 11.3. Building on Nature and Culture -- 11.4. The Politics of Greed -- 11.5. Conclusion: The Sacred Geography of Europe -- 11.6. References -- 12 Emergent Innovation: Technology, Management, Aesthetics -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Knowledge and Innovation -- 12.3. Towards Integral Innovation -- 12.4. The Leadership of Innovation -- 12.5. Conclusion: The Gaian Point of View -- 12.6. References.
13 Navigation: Self-Management/Cooperative Association -- 13.1. Introduction -- 13.2. Cooperatives in the Age of Capital -- 13.3. Co-operation Italian Style -- 13.4. Conclusion: On Civil Society and the Social Economy -- 13.5. References -- 14 Social and Technical Effect: Integral Green Slovenia -- 14.1. Introduction: Living the Truth to Integral Green Slovenia -- 14.2. Tapping into Slovenia's Moral Core -- 14.3. Towards an Integral Green Slovenia -- 14.4. Conclusion -- 14.5. References -- V Economic and Environmental Orientation: Western Polity -- 15 Environmental and Economic Grounding: The American Soul -- 15.1. Introduction: Inner and Outer Grounding -- 15.2. Remembering America/Remembering Washington -- 15.3. Individuality: A Meditation on the Face of Lincoln -- 15.4. The American Indian: Crimes of America -- 15.5. Slavery, Frederick Douglass and the Story of America -- 15.6. Conclusion: The Meaning of America -- 15.7. References -- 16 Natural, Cultural, Social, Economic Emergence: Future Primal -- 16.1. Introduction -- 16.2. The Eclipse of Wisdom -- 16.3. The Primal Political Mandala -- 16.4. Conclusion -- 16.5. References -- 17 Political and Environmental Navigation: Politics of Nature -- 17.1. Introduction -- 17.2. How to Bring the Natural-Political Collective Together? -- 17.3. Devising a New Separation of Powers -- 17.4. Variegated Skills for the Collective -- 17.5. Conclusion: Exploring the Common Worlds of Oikos -- 17.6. References -- 18 Economic and Environmental Effect: Brazil's Curitiba -- 18.1. Introduction: Soul of America to Curitiba -- 18.2. Treating Citizens as a Precious Resource -- 18.3. Conclusion: Bio/mimicry - Design Working with Nature -- 18.4. References -- VI Nature, Culture, Society and Economy: Centring Polity -- 19 Integral Ground: Holy Qur'an: Start Sustainable Development -- 19.1. Introduction.
19.2. By Way of Tradition -- 19.3. Themes and Concepts -- 19.4. Contemporary Topics -- 19.5. Power and Politics: Medina's Participatory Democracy -- 19.6. Conclusion -- 19.7. References -- 20 Emergent Integral: Harmony: Sustainable Development Anew -- 20.1. Introduction -- 20.2. The Golden Thread: Wisdom of the Ancients -- 20.3. Which Natural and Cultural Grammar Do We Follow? -- 20.4. Conclusion -- 20.5. References -- 21 Integral Navigation: The Potential of the Arab Spring -- 21.1. Introduction -- 21.2. Cornerstones of Egypt's History -- 21.3. The Dynamics of the Egyptian Revolution -- 21.4. A True Arab Awakening? -- 21.5. Islam and Sustainable Development -- 21.6. Conclusion: Where Arab Spring and Integral Polity Fail to Meet -- 21.7. References -- 22 Integral Effect: Sekem - Integral Sustainable Development -- 22.1. Introduction: Towards an Integral Centred Polity -- 22.2. Reformative Young Adulthood: Emergent Foundation -- 22.3. Newly Normative Midlife: Emancipatory Navigation -- 22.4. Transformative Maturity: Effecting Transformation -- 22.5. Conclusion -- 22.6. References -- Epilogue -- Index.
Abstract:
Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has therefore become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century. Taking as a starting point the ground-breaking work of the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development this book applies such an 'integral' notion to the realms of business, economics and enterprise. To be successful, an integral approach must recognise the nuances of its environment - an integral approach in India is different from that in Indonesia, or Iceland, and they may in fact complement rather than conflict. Therefore this book also provides a fascinating alignment of such 'integrality' with, and between different 'southern' and 'eastern', 'northern' and 'western' worlds. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease of life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt, realm of the political.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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