| List of Abbreviations | p. viii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| The Future of Values | |
| Introduction | p. 3 |
| Twilight, Clash or Hybridization of Values? | p. 5 |
| Towards a Twilight of Values? | p. 7 |
| Tactical Humanism | p. 13 |
| From the Universal to the Singular: The Violence of the Global | p. 19 |
| Values and the Challenge of the Inhuman | p. 25 |
| The Culture of the Inhuman | p. 27 |
| The Devil's Advocate, between the Ethical and the Systemic | p. 34 |
| Serious Values or Frivolous Values? | p. 41 |
| The Ethics of Complexity and the Problem of Values in the Twenty-First Century | p. 43 |
| For a Subversive Genesis of Values | p. 47 |
| Towards a Frivolousness of Values? | p. 55 |
| Beyond the Aestheticization of Values? | p. 62 |
| Art Beyond Aestheticism | p. 64 |
| Towards a Postmodern Ethic of the Aesthetic | p. 69 |
| The Soul of Values | p. 73 |
| Towards the Reinterpretation of Values? | p. 76 |
| Values and the Construction of Subjectivity | p. 78 |
| Towards a Feminizing of Values? | p. 80 |
| The Rise of Associations and New Forms of Solidarity | p. 86 |
| Universal Project, Multiple Heritages | p. 89 |
| Towards the Century of the Spirit? | p. 94 |
| The Emergence of Cognitive Civilization | p. 95 |
| Religion and the Challenge of the Spiritual in the Twenty-First Century | p. 98 |
| Globalization, New Technologies and Culture | |
| Globalization and the 'Third Industrial Revolution' | p. 105 |
| Globalization and its Discontents | p. 107 |
| Globalization, Peace and Cosmopolitics | p. 110 |
| Science, Technology and Globalization | p. 123 |
| The New Technologies and Culture | p. 127 |
| The Age of Access | p. 129 |
| Is Culture Threatened? | p. 142 |
| Cultural Globalization and the Preservation of Diversity | p. 147 |
| A Tamed Schizophrenia? | p. 149 |
| Reconstructing Culture | p. 154 |
| The Future of Languages | p. 159 |
| Colonization, Globalization and the Future of Languages | p. 161 |
| The Life, Death and Resurrection of Languages | p. 166 |
| Towards New Social Contracts? | |
| The New Social Contract and Lifelong Education for All | p. 179 |
| Towards Lifelong Education for All | p. 181 |
| Education and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century | p. 187 |
| Women and the Future of Education | p. 191 |
| A Natural Contract and the Future of Development | p. 196 |
| The Natural Contract and Development in the Twenty-First Century | p. 198 |
| The Future of Biodiversity | p. 204 |
| Environment and Development in the Approaches to 2020 | p. 210 |
| Framing a Cultural Contract for the Twenty-First Century | p. 215 |
| The Case for a Cultural Contract | p. 217 |
| What Future for Cultural Pluralism? | p. 220 |
| Culture in the Twenty-First Century: Cloning or Hybridization? | p. 228 |
| Towards an Ethical Contract? | p. 233 |
| Bioethics and the Future of Living Things | p. 235 |
| Future Ethics and Politics | p. 241 |
| Development in the Twenty-First Century? | p. 245 |
| Shaping a Universal Consciousness | p. 248 |
| Science, Knowledge and Foresight | |
| The Human Impact of the Genetic Revolution | p. 253 |
| Does Natural Selection Still Drive Evolution? | p. 255 |
| From Genetic Mystification to Molecular Policing | p. 260 |
| The Political Challenge of Genetic Engineering | p. 270 |
| The New Faces of Racism | p. 273 |
| Racism, Globalization and the Genetic Revolution | p. 276 |
| The New Aspects of Racism in the Age of Globalization and the Gene Revolution | p. 280 |
| Genism, Racism and the Prospect of Genetic Genocide | p. 284 |
| The Genome, Biology and Racism | p. 289 |
| The Imaginative Roots of Racism | p. 293 |
| The Changing Face of Racism | p. 298 |
| Self-Knowledge: Anticipating and Preventing Sickness of the Soul | p. 301 |
| The New Maladies of the Soul | p. 303 |
| The Compression of Time and Sickness of the Soul | p. 309 |
| Exclusion and Sickness of the Soul | p. 312 |
| Human Beings and the Future of the Universe | p. 318 |
| The Future of the Universe: Big Bang or Big Crunch? | p. 320 |
| Cosmologies of the Future | p. 324 |
| Scientific Enquiry: Doubts and Certainties | p. 330 |
| Conclusion: In Search of Lost Time--towards an Ethics of the Future? | p. 341 |
| Select Bibliography | p. 347 |
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