Presentation of the e-book “Strolling alongside the cornice” by way of Ernesto Ottone

Presentation of the e-book “Strolling alongside the cornice” by way of Ernesto Ottone

• Heart for Public Research, Nuncio Monseñor Sótero Sanz 162, Providencia.
• Wednesday, January 15 – 6:30 p.m..

In “Strolling alongside the cornice”, Ernesto Ottone explores the advanced transition between the twentieth and twenty first centuries, marking the milestones, contradictions and dilemmas of a global in consistent transformation.

From the point of view of an observer who has lived each centuries intensely, the sociologist unravels the sped up adjustments that experience characterised the ultimate century and the start of the present one: the transition from an business economic system to a virtual society, the affect of globalization on identities nationals and the emergence of latest applied sciences that problem moral and political limits.

During his chapters, the writer analyzes the way forward for international politics, the disaster of democracies, the upward thrust of inequalities and the resurgence of authoritarian dispositions. Greater than a chronicle, this essay gives a essential mirrored image on the way forward for humanity, wondering whether or not humanity will be capable of face the demanding situations posed by way of this “stroll at the ledge” or if it is hurtling against a disaster of civilization.

This e-book invitations us to grasp the profound adjustments of the present technology and to replicate at the collective choices that may mark the process the twenty first century.

Concerning the writer:

Sociologist and essayist. Physician in Political Sciences, Los angeles Sorbonne-Nouvelle College of Paris. Instructional on the College of Chile, Honorary Professor on the Diego Portales College. Complete Member and previous vice chairman of the Chilean Academy of Social, Political and Ethical Sciences of the Institute of Chile. Columnist for the newspaper Los angeles Tercera. He has been a professor on the School of Global Research in Paris and at universities in France and Italy. He used to be strategic consultant to President Ricardo Lagos and Deputy Govt Secretary of ECLAC. He has printed greater than twenty books, a few of them translated into a number of languages.