Death of Industrial Civilization

Joel Jay Kassiola is Professor of Political Science at Brooklyn College.

• Part I Advanced Industrial Society in Crisis: Experiencing the Consequences of Economic Growth Addiction 1 The Contemporary Industrial Crisis and the Limits-to-Growth Controversy 2 The Death of Industrial Illusions Part II Modern Economics as the Reductionism of Politics 3 The Modern Rise of Economics and the Demise of Politics 4 Industrial Economic Reductionism: Depoliticization through the Addiction to Unlimited Growth 5 Liberalism and the Economic Reductionism of Politics 6 The Concept of "Relative Wealth": A Social Limit to Growth that Destroys the Addiction to Growth and Spurs Repoliticization Part III The Values of Industrialism: Unlimited Competitive Materialism and the Normative Limits to Growth 7 Beyond the Biophysical Limits to Growth: Assessing Industrial Values 8 Materialism and Modern Political Philosophy Part IV Transindustrial Values: Replacing the Addiction to Unlimited Economic Growth with Nonmaterialism, Noncompetition, Participatory Democracy and Community 9 Social Transformation into a Transindustrial Community 10 Conclusion: Towards a New Transindustrial Society Notes Bibliography Index

"Kassiola swims against the stream of modern thought, not only challenging its current course, but pointing in new directions and urging others to join the rethinking process." — Lester W. Milbrath"It fills a void in the literature on the future of industrial growth by synthesizing a tremendous amount of material into a coherent package. …a first-rate book of intellectual brilliance." — Dennis Pirages