The Institute of World Culture, founded on July 4, 1976 (Bicentennial), has launched influential publications to generate a continuing enquiry into the prospects and possibilities, the conditions and requirements, of the world civilization of the future. Current publications include analyses of contemporary social structures, contributions to philosophic and literary thought, as well as classic reprints from Plato, ancient Indian psychology, Edward Bellamy and Leo Tolstoy. They invite the reader to rethink and renew a vital sense of participation in the global inheritance of humanity and the emerging cosmopolis.
NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM
America and the Global Community Towards
the Year 2000
By Raghavan Iyer
Invoking the founding motto of the United States ("A New
Order of the Ages"), Professor Iyer offers a timely reflection
on America and the globe in the coming decades. "The New
Learning" sets forth thought-provoking proposals on lifelong
learning, a national income floor and America's contribution to
the world community. "The Emerging Cosmopolis" explores
the potentials of the present which intimate the gradual emergence
of a true global community. The basic conclusions of the national
study The Global 2000 Report to the President are included.
76 p. Sewn, softbound with dust jacket $12.75
THE DREAM OF RAVAN
A Visionary Mystery
Anonymously published well over a century ago, this mysterious
work tells the timeless tale of Rama, whose rule constituted the
Golden Age. In addition to recounting central portions of the
ancient legend, the author explains its profound spiritual meaning
for people of all cultures and beliefs.
98 p. Sewn, softbound with dust jacket $12.75
THE RELIGION OF SOLIDARITY
Foresight and Social
Regeneration
By Edward Bellamy
Edward Bellamy's brilliant title essay is accompanied by a careful
and cognate selection from his later writings to set forth a challenging
view of man, nature and society.
127 p. Sewn, softbound $12.75
UTILITARIANISM AND ALL
THAT
The Political Theory
of British Imperialism
By Raghavan Iyer
Utilitarianism and All That deftly unravels the main strands of
British imperial policy in India from Hastings to Attlee. This
brilliant work, first published by Chatto & Windus, London,
in 1960, has already become an international classic.
124 p. Sewn, softbound $12.75
THE SOCIETY OF THE FUTURE
By Raghavan Iyer
These seminal essays by Raghavan Iyer explore the classical view
of humanity's place in the cosmos and indicate what the contemporary
individual must do to release the fullest potential. "Individuation"
extends the significant contribution of Abraham Maslow in providing
a portrait of the self-actualizing person. "The Tempest -
A Mystery Play" is an insightful interpretation of Shakespeare's
final play with its spectrum of human longings. "The Society
of the Future" is a radical and fundamental rethinking of
the social structure in relation to human fulfilment.
110 p. Sewn, softbound $12.75