Global Development: Post-Material Values and Social Praxis

This text focuses on post-material consciousness, a concept that has not been developed in American literature offers a fresh perspective on the human condition and its social development as a vehicle of global welfare. Brij Mohan contends that post-modern societies, despite their affluence and the superpower thaw , remain in a state of flux, and that the traditional approaches on the Left and Right have failed to present a viable program for peace, development and prosperity. Mohan’s formulation is premised on three assumptions: existing ideologies, theories, and practices of national and international development are fraught with contradictions and anomalies; the world climate and its challenges call for a new thinking beyond bureaucratized disciplines; and post-material consciousness lends support to a bio-global strategy that is conceptually compatible with humankind’s ultimate agenda for coexistence based on justice, equality, and peace. Part 1 deals with theoretical considerations in light of contemporary social events, and part 2 offers comparative analyses of three different societies - the United States, Germany, and India - with a particular emphasis on social development issues. Concepts such as end of history , end of ideology , and even third world are called into question. Global development , premised on the notion of humanity’s one-ness , unravels the paradoxes of diversity and offers a rational, humane basis for a dignified existence of the human race beyond the ossified structures of conceptual boundaries and organizational morass.