At century's end : great minds reflect on our times /
At Century's End is a powerful collection of essays and interviews by thirty of the world's top thinkers and leaders, providing insight on the course of the world at the end of the twentieth century. Never ponderous nor heavy, the writing is concise, informative, and thought-provoking, giv...
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La Jolla, Calif. :
ALTI Pub.,
c1995
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Table of Contents:
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn : Reflections on the eve of the twenty-first century
- Czeslaw Milosz : The fate of the religious imagination
- Akbar S. Ahmed : Media mongols at the gates of Baghdad
- Zbigniew Brzezinski : Weak ramparts of the permissive west
- Samuel P. Huntington : Civilizations at odds
- Ivan Illich : The shadow our future throws
- Isaiah Berlin : Return of the Volkgeist: nationalism, good and bad
- Pierre Trudeau : Against nationalism
- Carlos Fuentes : The federalist way
- Felipe Gonzalez : The limits to self-determination
- Hans Jurgen Syberberg : Germany's heart: the modern taboo
- Bernard Henri-Levy : Bosnia and the Diet Coke civilization
- Wole Soyinka : Hope and horror in Africa
- V.S. Naipaul : The Hindu awakening
- Ryszard Kapuscinski : La raza cosmica in America
- Alvin and Heidi Toffler : Revolt of the rich
- Lee Kuan Yew : The East Asian way
- Michael Manley : Adam Smith was right
- Akio Morita and David Rockefeller : Capitalism east and west: a dialogue
- Nelson Mandela : The waning nation-state
- Francois Mitterrand : A smug indifference to the global outerclass
- Shimon Peres : The end of the hunting season in history
- Octavio Paz : West turns east at the end of history
- Takeshi Umehara : The civilization of the forest: ancient Japan shows postmodernism the way
- Shuichi Kato : Japan's empty core
- Jean Baudrillard : After Utopia: the primitive society of the future
- Oliver Stone : Splinters to the brain
- Daniel Boorstin : A history of the image: from pseudo-events to virtual reality