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The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community

David C. Korten
The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community
ISBN: 978-1-887208-07-9
$57.00
ISBN: 978-1-887208-08-6
$24.00
2006/402 pages/LC: 20055055855
A Kumarian Press Book

"Fascinating, wonderfully readable, and broad reaching in its arc of history and significance. The Great Turning will keep you up at night reading, fill your notebooks with insights, and give you the ammunition to win the water cooler wars."—Thom Hartmann, author of Cracking the Code

"A work of amazing scope and depth that shows we can create cultures where our enormous human capacities for joy, caring, and cooperation are realized."—Riane Eisler, author of The Chalice and the Blade

DESCRIPTION

In his classic When Corporations Rule the World, David Korten focused on the destructive nature of the global corporate economy and helped to spark a worldwide resistance movement. Now, in The Great Turning, he goes further to argue that the corporate consolidation of power is but one manifestation of what he calls "Empire": the organization of society through hierarchy and violence that has held sway for some 5,000 years.

But Korten does much more than chart the evolution of Empire and its instruments of control. He also highlights efforts to develop democratic alternatives and—emphasizing that Empire is not the natural order of things—makes a compelling case that an egalitarian, sustainable way of ordering human society is both possible and practical.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David C. Korten is president and founder of the People-Centered Development Forum, a global alliance dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive, and sustainable societies through voluntary citizen action.

CONTENTS

  • CHOOSING OUR FUTURE.
  • The Choice.
  • The Possibility.
  • The Imperative.
  • The Opportunity.
  • SORROWS OF EMPIRE.
  • When God Was a Woman.
  • Ancient Empire.
  • Modern Empire.
  • Athenian Experiment.
  • AMERICA. THE UNFINISHED PROJECT.
  • Inauspicious Beginning.
  • People Power Rebellion.
  • Empire's Victory.
  • Struggle for Justice.
  • Wake-Up Call.
  • Prisons of the Mind.
  • THE GREAT TURNING.
  • Beyond Strict Father versus Aging Clock.
  • Creation's Epic Journey.
  • Joys of Earth Community.
  • Stories for a New Era.
  • BIRTHING EARTH COMMUNITY.
  • Leading from Below.
  • Building a Majority.
  • Liberating Creative Potential.
  • Change the Story, Change the Future.