The Future of Post-Human Criminality
The Future of Post-Human Criminality
A Preface to a New Theory of Heroes and Villains
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Year: 2017
Pages: 594
Size: 6 x 9 Inch
Publisher: Cambridge International Science Publishing
Published in India by: Viva Books
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Sales Territory: India, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka
Description:
Is crime really so social in its origin that, as Richard Quinney (1966) once said, "crime is a social phenomenon"?
This social view of criminality can be contrasted with an opposing view which is more biological in orientation, as shown in the arguments that, for example, "crime is most frequent in second and third decades of life" (that is, among young folks) and "males commit more overall ... crime" (than females). (WK 2011; L. Ellis 2009)
So, which view is correct here? Contrary to these opposing ideas (and other views as will be discussed in the book), criminality (in relation to heroes and villains) is neither possible (or impossible) nor desirable (or undesirable) to the extent that the respective ideologues (on different sides) would like us to believe.
But the challenge to these opposing views about criminality does not imply that the study of criminality (or criminology in short) is useless, or that those fields of study (related to criminology) like psychology, anthropology, sociology, economics, political science, biology, literature, ethics, religion, and so on should be rejected too. Needless to say, neither of these extreme views is plausible.
Instead, this book offers an alternative (better) way to understand the future of criminality, especially in the dialectic context of heroes and villains - while learning from different approaches in the literature but without favoring any one of them (nor integrating them, since they are not necessarily compatible with each other).
In other words, this book offers a new theory (that is, the reflective theory of criminality) to go beyond the existing approaches in a novel way.
If successful, this seminal project is to fundamentally change the way that we think about criminality, from the combined perspectives of the mind, nature, society, and culture, with enormous implications for the human future and what I originally called its "post-human" fate.
In this book:
- Introduction - The Longevity of Criminality
- Heroes and their Duality
- Villains and their Doubleness
- Conclusion - The Future of Criminality
Target Audience:
Students and Academicians of Criminology.
Contents:
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1: Introduction—The Longevity of Criminality • A Quarrel about Criminality • Heroes and Villains in Criminality • General Features of Criminality • The Theoretical Debate • The Reflective Theory of Criminality • Theory and Meta-Theory • The Logic of Existential Dialectics • Sophisticated Methodological Holism • Chapter Outline • Some Clarifications
Part 2: Heroes
Chapter 2. Heroes and their Duality • The Greatness of Heroes • Heroes and the Mind • Heroes and Nature • Heroes and Society • Heroes and Culture • The Smallness of Heroes
Part 3: Villains
Chapter 3: Villains and their Doubleness • The Wickedness of Villains • Villains and the Mind • Villains and Nature • Villains and Society • Villains and Culture • The Goodness of Villains
Part 4: Conclusion
Chapter 4: Conclusion—The Future of Criminality • Beyond Heroes and Villains • 1st Thesis: The Formalness-Informalness Principle • 2nd Thesis: The Absoluteness-Relativeness Principle • 3rd Thesis: The Partiality-Totality Principle • 4th Thesis: The Predictability-UnpredictabilityPrinciple • 5th Thesis: The Explicability-Inexplicability Principle • 6th Thesis: The Fiction-Reality Principle • 7th Thesis: The Finiteness-Transfiniteness Principle • 8th Thesis: The Preciseness-Vagueness Principle • 9th Thesis: The Simpleness-Complicatedness Principle • 10th Thesis: The Openness-Hiddenness Principle • 11th Thesis: The Denseness-Emptiness Principle • 12th Thesis: The Change-Constancy Principle • 13th Thesis: The Order-Chaos Principle • 14th Thesis: The Slowness-Quickness Principle • 15th Thesis: The Expansion-Contraction Principle • 16th Thesis: The Theory-Praxis Principle • 17th Thesis: The Convention-Novelty Principle • 18th Thesis: The Evolution-Transformation Principle • 19th Thesis: The Symmetry-Asymmetry Principle • 20th Thesis: The Softness-Hardness Principle • 21st Thesis: The Seriousness-Playfulness Principle • 22nd Thesis: The Regression-Progression Principle • 23rd Thesis: The Sameness-Difference Principle • 24th Thesis: The Stability-Reaction Principle • 25th Thesis: The Post-Human Reflection • Towards the Post-Human Reflection
Bibliography
Index
About the Author:
Dr Peter Baofu is the author of 53 new theories in 44 books to provide a visionary challenge to conventional wisdom in all fields of knowledge ranging from the social sciences through the formal sciences and the natural sciences to the humanities, with the final aim for a unified theory of everything.
He is known for his pioneering works on ‘multilateral acoustics,’ ‘metamorphic humor,’ ‘heterodox education,’ ‘post-human mind games,’ ‘post-Earth geology,’ ‘substitutive religion,’ ‘post-cosmology,’ ‘contrarian personality,’ ‘post-ethics,’ ‘multifaceted war and peace,’ ‘post-humanity,’ ‘critical-dialectic formal science,’ ‘combinational organization,’ ‘hyper-sexual body,’ ‘law reconstruction,’ ‘comprehensive creative thinking,’ ‘hyper-martial body,’ ‘multilogical learning,’ ‘contingent urban planning,’ ‘post-capitalism,’ ‘selective geometry,’ ‘post-democracy,’ ‘contrastive advantages,’ ‘ambivalent technology,’ ‘authoritarian liberal democracy,’ ‘the post-post-Cold-War era,’ ‘post-civilization,’ ‘transformative aesthetic experience,’ ‘synthetic information architecture,’ ‘contrastive mathematical logic,’ ‘dialectic complexity,’ ‘after-postmodernity,’ ‘sophisticated methodological holism,’ ‘post-human space-time,’ ‘existential dialectics,’ ‘unfolding unconsciousness,’ ‘floating consciousness,’ ‘hyper-spatial consciousness,’ and other visions.
Dr Baofu earned an entry to the list of ‘prominent and emerging writers’ in Contemporary Authors (2005) and another honorary entry in The Writers Directory (2007) ‘ and was also interviewed on television and in newspapers about his original ideas. He was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar in the Far East. He had taught as a professor at different universities in Western Europe, the Caucasus, the Middle East, the Balkans, Central Asia, South Asia, and North America. He finished more than 5 academic degrees, including a Ph.D. from the world-renowned M.I.T., and was a summa cum laude graduate.
