5 March 2021 - DHSS Lecture Series: Constructive Postmodernism, Second Enlightenment, and Dao-oriented Development with Chinese Characteristics
AbstractAmid persisting poverty, widening inequality and increasing environmental deterioration, societies across the globe have begun to reflect on – and question - the modern, dominant notion of development, still largely based on the tenets of the (first) Enlightenment. A new, compassionate, holistic form of development inspired by a “Second Enlightenment”, which draws on principles of co...