Democracy and Self-Organization

In Democracy and Self-Organization,Robert Aziz draws on his depth understandingof human psychology and culture to provideus with unprecedented insight into thedynamics of meaning underlying BarackObama's politics of change. Conclusionsreached about our current culturalcrisis of meaning in his previouswork The Syndetic Paradigm (2007) formthe basis of this incisive analysis. InDemocracy and Self-Organization,carefully and systematically, directlyand substantively connecting theprofound leadership initiatives of John F. Kennedyand Martin Luther King Jr. to his thesis,Robert Aziz convincingly situates thechange of which Barack Obama speakswithin the context of the now urgentdemands of democratic culture'sunfolding destiny.