The Western Devaluation of Knowledge

Contents: 

• Introduction: the ways and means of cultural change
• Science, industry and the invention of a new worldview
• Management as cultural authority
• The cultural values of work and leisure
• The strategy & spirit of capitalism
• From material need to consumer culture
• Higher learning as marketplace
• Globalization of the tightening systems knot
• Time to think
• Balancing values through cultural change
• Progress and myth
• Knowledge devalued: summary & conclusions