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ONLINE NEWSLETTER: ARCHIVES: Access All Mark Satin Articles, 2005- 2009 Access All Mark Satin Articles, 1999- 2004 Access John Avlon Archive, 2004-2006 RESPONSES FROM OTHERS: Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2008 - 2009 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2007 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2006 Feisty E-mails to the Editor, 2005 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 2002-04 Feisty Letters to the Editor, 1999-2001 WHO WE ARE: About the Editor (In-House Version) About the Editor (By Marilyn Ferguson) About Our Directors and Advisors About Our Sponsor, the Center for Visionary Law RADICAL MIDDLE, THE BOOK: SOME PRIOR BOOKS BY MARK SATIN: New Options for America (book drawn from New Options News- letter, 1983-92) New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society, 1976 CONTEXT (FROM WIKIPEDIA): |
25 Best “New Age” Political Books of the 1970s I. INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM EDITOR MARK SATIN The 1970s were an exciting time: Although the New Left collapsed, a new political movement -- oriented more to ecology, voluntary simplicity and sexual liberation than socialism -- came to the fore. Detractors called it the “New Age” movement, but from the beginning it sought to develop a coherent new analysis of society and strategy for social change (see New World Alliance elsewhere on this website). Today many New Age political ideas, dressed up in more sober garb, have entered and are continuing to enter the mainstream. Some are called “radical centrist” or “radical middle” ideas, a concept popularized by Marilyn Ferguson in her 1980 bestseller, The Aquarian Conspiracy. The following books were the backbone of that movement. Most of them hold up well. And they’re far more visionary than what’s coming off the presses today -- which suggests, sadly, that the sense of possibility in the 1970s was far greater than it is today.
So, enjoy! ////////// II. THE 25 BEST Wendell Berry, The Unsettling of America: Culture and Agriculture Helen Caldicott, Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do Ernest Callenbach, Ecotopia (novel) Herman Daly, Steady-State Economics: The Economics of Biophysical Equilibrium and Moral Growth Erich Fromm, To Have or to Be? ////////// Willis Harman, An Incomplete Guide to the Future Hazel Henderson, Creating Alternative Futures: The End of Economics John Holt, Escape from Childhood: The Needs and Rights of Children Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality Julius Lester, All Is Well ////////// Amory Lovins, Soft Energy Paths: Towards a Durable Peace Donella Meadows et al., The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome Roban Morgan, ed., Sisterhood Is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement Lewis Mumford, The Pentagon of Power (The Myth of the Machine, Vol. II) M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth ////////// Michael Phillips, The Seven Laws of Money Robert Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values James Robertson, The Sane Alternative: A Choice of Futures Theodore Roszak, Person / Planet: The Creative Disintegration of Industrial Society Mark Satin, New Age Politics: Healing Self and Society ////////// E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered Philip Slater, Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point Robert Theobald, Beyond Despair: Directions for America's Third Century William Irwin Thompson, At the Edge of History and Passages About Earth Alvin Toffler, Future Shock ////////// See our picks of the best visionary political books from the 2000s, HERE; from the 1990s, HERE; from the 1980s, HERE. And see HERE for an annotated list of all our Radical Middle Political Book Award winners from 1980 through 2008. |
THE RADICAL MIDDLE CONCEPT: 50 Thinkers and Activists DESCRIBE the Radical Middle 50 Best Radical Middle BOOKS of the '00s GREAT RADICAL MIDDLE GROUPS AND BLOGS: Over 250 Great Radical Centrist GROUPS and Organizations 50 Great Radical Centrist BLOGS SOME PRIOR RADICAL MIDDLE INITIATIVES: Generational Equity and Communitarian platforms,1990s U.S. Green Party's "Ten Key Values" statement, 1980s RADICAL MIDDLE CONGRES- SIONAL SCORECARDS: 109th and 110th Congresses (2005-08) RADICAL MIDDLE POLITICAL BOOK AWARD WINNERS: MORE RADICAL MIDDLE BOOKS: 50 Best Radical Middle Books of the '00s 50 Best "Third Way" Books of the 1990s 25 Best "Transformational" Books of the 1980s 25 Best "New Age Politics" Books of the 1970s NOT JUST RADICAL MIDDLE: 50 Current Political IDEOLOGIES 50 Current Political MANIFESTOS
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