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Preamble
Nancy, Barrau, Holloway and 1 other
Fordham University Press eBooks15 Oct 2014
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Preamble
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Abstract This section states that the world is undergoing three kinds of important transformations: it is no longer represented by an ordered cosmos; it does not have any manageable and definite order on a universal, natural, or cultural level; and it is diversified with more complexities brought by interactions and upheavals affecting civilization. There also exists three possible scenarios, three risks, and three opportunities. Such is the complexity that even the question mark at the end of the title is analyzed as amounting to an exclamation point. That means that, in effect, the question mark, when overwritten with an exclamation point, changes the question into a desperate cry of desperation, a jolt of revulsion and a resignation at the same time to what the world is coming to. To whatever ends this astonishment will bring us, we should join in the fray.