Integral Polity

Integrating Nature, Culture, Society and Economy
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4724-4247-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 827 g

Reihe: Transformation and Innovation

Releasing the genius of an individual, an enterprise and a society is a central pre-occupation of the contemporary business environment. A fascinating approach to how we can begin to tackle this challenge is presented by the authors of Integral Polity. Integral spirituality, integral philosophy and the integral age, at an overall or holistic level of consciousness, has therefore become a strong enough idea to form the genesis of a movement over the course of the last half century. Taking as a starting point the ground-breaking work of the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development this book applies such an ’integral’ notion to the realms of business, economics and enterprise. To be successful, an integral approach must recognise the nuances of its environment - an integral approach in India is different from that in Indonesia, or Iceland, and they may in fact complement rather than conflict. Therefore this book also provides a fascinating alignment of such ’integrality’ with, and between different ’southern’ and ’eastern’, ’northern’ and ’western’ worlds. Using case studies ranging across the globe this review of a newly integral theory and practice provides a new lease of life to what may increasingly be perceived as the self-seeking, insulated and occasionally violent and corrupt, realm of the political.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lessem, Ronnie

Abouleish, Ibrahim

Herman, Louis

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Unternehmensorganisation, Corporate Responsibility Unternehmensethik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue; I: In Pursuit of Integrity; 1: Disintegrated to Integral Polity; 2: The Origins of Political Order; II: Natural and Communal Orientation: Southern Polity; 3: Natural Grounding; 4: Natural Emergence; 5: Communal Navigation; 6: Natural Rapoko Effect; III: Cultural and Spiritual Orientation: Eastern Polity; 7: Spiritual Grounding; 8: Cultural and Spiritual Emergence; 9: Cultural, Political and Economic Navigation; 10: Conscious, Powerful, Economic Effect; IV: Technological and Societal Orientation: Northern Polity; 11: Social and Political Grounding; 12: Emergent Innovation; 13: Navigation; 14: Social and Technical Effect; V: Economic and Environmental Orientation: Western Polity; 15: Environmental and Economic Grounding; 16: Natural, Cultural, Social, Economic Emergence; 17: Political and Environmental Navigation; 18: Economic and Environmental Effect; VI: Nature, Culture, Society and Economy: Centring Polity; 19: Integral Ground; 20: Emergent Integral; 21: Integral Navigation; 22: Integral Effect; Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Professor Ronnie Lessem is a Zimbabwean political economist, and graduate of Harvard Business School, who co-founded the Integral Worlds approach to Integral Development via the Trans4m Centre for Integral Development in Geneva. Professor Dr Ibrahim Abouleish is an Egyptian-born, Austrian-educated engineer and pharmacologist, ecologist and spiritual scientist, who received the Right Livelihood Award for founding Sekem, a Sustainable Community in the desert. Marko PogaÄnik, who studied at the Academy of Arts in Slovenia, is a conceptual artist and earth healer, and an iconic figure in his country, who designed the national flag of Slovenia and practises Sacred Geography around the world. Professor Louis Herman is a South African-born medical graduate of the University of Cambridge in England, now head of the department of political science at the University of Hawaii, West Oahu, renowned for his Primal Politics.