The Listening Society · A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One by Freinacht, Hanzi -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Our Mission Contents PROLOGUE

Political Metamodernism Is the Future Who Is Hanzi Freinacht? Readers of Bronze, Silver and Gold

Introduction: WHAT WE MUST ACHIEVE

This Book and the Next Metamodernism: The Philosophical Engine Academic Heresy The Reader Rebels Your Predictable Objections More Predictable Objections Psycho-Active Literature Sincere Irony

PART ONE: The New Political Landscape

1. HOW POLITICS CHANGED

The Most Progressive Countries in the World Post-Materialist Values One Meta-Ideology Has Already Won There Is No “Center” of Politics The Voter’s Raw New Deal

2. CRISIS-REVOLUTION

Newly Dug Trenches Hackers, Hipsters and Hippies Polarization and Trumpism Explained The Multidimensional Crisis-Revolution The Boom Equation

3. IN A NUTSHELL

The Basic Idea Should We Really Make People Happy? Don’t Scorn Happiness The Fabric of Hurt and Bliss Taking Up the Struggle Accepting the Risks

4. POSSIBLE AND NECESSARY

Yes, It Is Possible And, Yes, It Is Necessary How It Connects to Everyday Life An Empirical Example: Meditation in Schools Emotional, Social and Collective Intelligence Feeling Provoked Yet?

5. THE ALTERNATIVE

Party about Nothing Got That Edge Transnationalism, Truly The Metamodern Aristocracy

6. POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Transpersonal Perspective: Beyond Individuals The View from Complexity Beyond Left and Right, at Long Last Non-Linear Politics Liberal Innocence Lost

PART TWO: Psychological Development

7. ON STAGE THEORIES

A Missing Piece of the Puzzle In Defense of Hierarchies among Humans The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Hierarchy Introducing Adult Development Domain-Specific Developmental Theories “Global” Developmental Stage Theories

8. COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT

Meister L. Commons The Model of Hierarchical Complexity (MHC) What Is Intelligence? The Parrot Speaks

9. THE IMPORTANT STAGES

Stage 10 Abstract Stage 11 Formal Stage 12 Systematic Stage 13 Metasystematic No, I Still Can’t Believe It. I Won’t! Implications for Society

10. SYMBOLIC DEVELOPMENT

Realdialektik Code and Cognitive Development Teleology and Determinism?

11. THE SYMBOL-STAGES

The First Three Symbol-Stages: A, B and C Symbol-Stage D: Postfaustian (or Traditional) Symbol-Stage E: Modern Symbol-Stage F: Postmodern Symbol-Stage G: Metamodern Last Notes on Symbol-Stages

12. SUBJECTIVE STATES

Romantic Revenge High States, Low States The Scale of Subjective States Beyond Emotions

13. REACHING HIGHER

A Definition of “Spirituality” What Everyday Life Feels Like on Average What It Means to Develop Your State Example of a “High State” Person Can Lower States Be Good? The Credibility Problem of Higher States Why Spiritual Communities Turn Into Cults

14. DEPTH

Agony and Ecstasy Measuring Depth Developing Depth Beauty, Mystery and Tragedy

15. WISDOM TROUBLES

Light and Dark Depth Wisdom Is Overrated Of Wisdom and Wise-Guys An Example from Bertrand Russell

16. EFFECTIVE VALUE MEME

The Awkward Uncle Why “Spiral Dynamics” Doesn’t Work From vMeme to Effective Value Meme The Dimensions of Development Come Together Zooming In on the Effective Value Memes

17. MAJOR IMPLICATIONS

Death to TURQUOISE Higher Secularism Rising Why Bother with Just a Baby? Danger, Danger Cliché Some Very Well-Needed Nuance Developmental Imbalances Make You Sick The Philosopher’s Stone Rip Them Apart. Spare No One Implications for a Global Society

18. DEVELOPMENT MATTERS

Higher Stage Populations Why the Postmoderns Cannot Save the World The Great Stretching Out Development Matters

Appendix: METAMODERNISM

Three Meanings of “Metamodernism” The Metamodern Paradigm, Condensed Origins of the Term “Metamodernism” The Difference between Post- and Metamodernism Bringing a New Metamodernism into Being

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