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Understanding the Course of Social Reality

The Necessity of Institutional and Ethical Transformations of Utopian Flavour

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Authors:
  1. Angelo Fusari

    1. Former ISAE Director of Research, Rome, Italy

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  • Presents extensive criticisms of the methodological foundations of social sciences
  • Provides an interpretation of economic, social and historic processes
  • Offers an organizational view, centred on the interaction of being and doing
  • Extends the analysis to ethical structures, rejecting both cultural relativism and cultural absolutism
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Sociology (BRIEFSSOCY)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Scientific Frame of This Story

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 9-19

  4. Prologue of the Tale

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 21-23

  5. On Landing on the Planet Dunatopia

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 25-27

  6. A Brief Historical Excursus on the Evolution of Dunatopian Society and Its Institutions. Structural Organization and Innovative Dash

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 29-36

  7. Power Forms and Their Practice in Dunatopia. Service-Power and Domination-Power. Judicial Power

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 37-48

  8. The Planetary Political System of Dunatopian Society

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 49-63

  9. Dunatopian Economic System

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 65-83

  10. Non-market Productive Activities and Other Aspects of the Dunatopian Social System

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 85-89

  11. The Reasons Why the Ideologies, Political and Economical Institutions and Public Interventions on Earth Obstruct the Building of a Supranational Order

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 91-95

  12. On the Methods of Science on Earth and on Dunatopia

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 97-105

  13. The Ethical Problem on Earth and on Dunatopia. Ethics and Religion

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 107-113

  14. On the Transition from Capitalism to Dunatopism

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 115-127

  15. Conclusion

    • Angelo Fusari
    Pages 129-130

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 131-148
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This book offers a comparison between our earthly society and the society of a hypothetical twin planet with the aim to understand and deal with some of the main problems of our global society, as well as to advance interaction with some extra-terrestrial society no less advanced than ours that sooner or later will be discovered. The underlying premise of the book is that the contemporary world finds itself in what may well be the most confused age of human history. Growing technological changes and innovation make it difficult to understand the course of social reality, while the intensification of the relations between different regions of the Earth and the power achieved by financial capital on a world scale amplify the dimensions and visibility of disequilibria and iniquities, and sharpen frustration and sentiments of insecurity. Social thought, as it has developed at the service of a quasi-stationary world, lacks the ability to understand and govern the tumultuous economic and social processes in progress.


The most efficacious way to meet this fleeting social reality is to scientifically highlight basic institutions and values and their steady changes caused by the accumulation of creative and choice processes. In doing so, long-run trends can be explored in order to understand and manage the disequilibrating-reequilibrating motion characterizing the life of dynamic societies. This book shows the ‘necessity’ of institutional and ethical transformations utilizing an utopian flavour.

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  • Former ISAE Director of Research, Rome, Italy

    Angelo Fusari

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