Global Change and Polish Problems

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Myopia is a salient feature of contemporary civilization. It inhibits raíional comprehension and policies, particularly in countries lagging behind in civilizational change. This is a seminal diagnosis of contemporary Poland and it alsó explains the main intentions of the book. We find philosophic considerations on predictability of humán change in the future. Development of thinking on the "humán predicament" or, as the Authors prefers, on the "syndrome of global civilization crisis," is surveyed and lessons thereof analyzed. Against the backdrop of global analysis, the historic and present problematique of Poland is considered. The Author places Poland's situation within a wider geostrategic set up and draws conclusions thereof. An important part of the book is devoted to problems of systemic transformations, which constitute the main concern of policy. The analysis is alsó carried out within a specific philosophical framework. The Author contends that certain failures of... Tovább

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Myopia is a salient feature of contemporary civilization. It inhibits raíional comprehension and policies, particularly in countries lagging behind in civilizational change. This is a seminal diagnosis of contemporary Poland and it alsó explains the main intentions of the book. We find philosophic considerations on predictability of humán change in the future. Development of thinking on the "humán predicament" or, as the Authors prefers, on the "syndrome of global civilization crisis," is surveyed and lessons thereof analyzed. Against the backdrop of global analysis, the historic and present problematique of Poland is considered. The Author places Poland's situation within a wider geostrategic set up and draws conclusions thereof. An important part of the book is devoted to problems of systemic transformations, which constitute the main concern of policy. The analysis is alsó carried out within a specific philosophical framework. The Author contends that certain failures of transformation are due to new, dogmatic thinking, ignoring pragmatic rationality. This part ofthe book will be considered most interesting, though alsó controversial. * * * Professor Józef Pajestka, by education lawyer and economist, is a member of the Polish Academy of Sciences and former professor of Warsaw University. He was director of the Institute of Planning and of the Institute of Economic Sciences of the Academy. In the recent few years he is concentrating on global problems. In 1990 he published his basic book Prolegomena to the Global Rationality of the Mankind (Towards Greater Rationality of Evolutionary Processes) and Economic Theorizing and New Challenges in Humán Evolutionary Process, in 1991 Polish Frustrations and Challenges. The Author has been a member of the Club of Romé since the mid-seventies, for somé 20 years he participated in the work of the UN Committee for Development. Vissza