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Introduction: Bridging the Emotional/Intellectual DivideThe following themes are discussed in this chapter:

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Democracy or Authoritarianism: the Economy and Politics of Modernisation in Japanith the forcible entry of the Western powers into a Japan isolated for more than two centuries. Yet the Emperor, ‘modernising’ Japan by gaining access to Western science and technology while retaining Japanese values, was later obliged to yield, after a victorious war in China, to the superior power

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Imperialism: the Perils of Globalism’ of Western religion and brute power. A chain of violent events leads inexorably to white domination. It starts with the proud warrior Okonkwo — a wealthy farmer with three wives — awakening in the night to the sound of the town-crier calling for a meeting next day.

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The Enigma of Politicsr, a devastating social and political critique. All Kafka’s main figures have an allegorical quality, according to Edwin Muir, they are not mere individuals; ‘they are images of man in conflict with fate’. Joseph Kafka in . first defies, then tries to discover, then is overtaken by divine justice. K

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Womenmen. The sophisticated explanation of the time, which is still too much for certain countries, was expressed by that scion of the Enlightenment, the abbé Sieyès, inaugurating the ‘Rights of Man’. For the abbé distinguished between ‘passive’ female rights and the ‘active’ male rights of citizens. Nat

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Dark Energycome a long way in the past 30 years. Today, with the help of space telescopes such as Hubble, scientists can observe the formation of new stars, the explosion of suns, and the destruction of planets. Age-old questions are finally being answered, while previously held notions about the universe have

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Conclusionsion, power and social production of knowledge’ take a positive form — that is, for equitable distribution of wealth, genuine participation in public decisions, and self-knowledge — or are instead overruled by greed, domination and selfishness. Possession, from a neutral (but potentially positive) p