The future of values : 21st century talks / edited by Jerome Binde ; with a preface by Kochiro Matsuura ; translator for the English edition, John Corbett and Brian Verity for Jacque Derrida's contribution.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Twilight, clash or hybridization of values -- Values and the challenge of inhuman -- Serious values or frivolous values -- Beyond the aestheticization of values -- Towards the reinterpretation of values -- Towards the century of the spirit -- Globalization and the third industrial revolution -- The new technologies and culture -- Cultural globalization and the preservation of diversity -- The future of languages -- The new social contract and lifelong education for all -- A natural contract and the future of development -- Framing a cultural contract for the twenty-first century -- Towards an ethical contract -- The human impact of the genetic revolution -- The new faces of racism -- Self-knowledge: anticipating and preventing sickness of the soul -- Human beings and the future of the universe.