Postmodern Politics for a Planet in Crisis

David Ray Griffin is Professor of Philosophy of Religion and Theology at the School of Theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School, Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies, and President of the Center for a Postmodern World. He is the author of God and Religion in the Postmodern World and Evil Revisited and editor of The Reenchantment of Science: Postmodern Proposals; Spirituality and Society: Postmodern Visions; and Sacred Interconnections: Postmodern Spirituality, Political Economy, and Art. Richard Falk is the Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice at Princeton University and rapporteur of the Global Civilization Project, an undertaking of the World Order Models Project. He is the author of Explorations at the Edge of Time: Prospects for the World Order; Revolutionaries and Functionaries: The Dual Face of Terrorism; A Study of Future Worlds; and (with Robert Jay Lifton) Indefensible Weapons: The Political and Psychological Case Against Nuclearism.

"There are more ideas per linear inch in this book than in a dozen others. This is a genuinely visionary compilation. The book brings a powerful moral/ecological vision to a subject corrupted by a deepening national cynicism." — David W. Orr, Director, Environmental Studies Program, Oberlin College

• Preface Introduction to SUNY Series in Constructive Postmodern ThoughtDavid Ray Griffin Introduction: From Modernity to Postmodern PoliticsRichard Falk and David Ray GriffinPART I: POLITICAL VISION AND POLICY FOR A POSTMODERN AMERICA 1. A Presidential Address on the EconomyJohn B. Cobb Jr. 2. The Full Measure of Our Days: Time and Public Policy in a Postmodern WorldJoanna Macy 3. 2020 Hindsight: A Retired Kansas Farmer Looks Back on the Revolution in Agriculture between 1990 amd 2020Wes Jackson 4. The "Vision Thing," the Presidency, and the Ecological Crisis, or the Greenhouse Effect and the "White House Effect"David Ray Griffin 5. Without a Vision the People Perish: Washington D.C. as ParableJim Wallis 6. A Postmodern Vision of Education for a Living PlanetDouglas SloanPART II: THE POLITICAL PROCESS AND THE PRESIDENCY 7. Political Culture and the Presidency: Memory and the Shift from Mostmodern to PostmodernRoger Wilkins 8. Politics for a Troubled Planet: Toward a Postmodern Democratic CultureFrances Moore Lappe 9. A Postmodern Presidency for a Postmodern WorldRichard Falk 10. Searching for a President with a Global VisionFrank K. Kelly Notes on Contributors and Centers Index