GTM's Books and Articles
Current Political Editorials and Professional Papers regarding contemporary issues and the need for a transformed world system.
Selected Older Political Editorials
Writings: There are links to selections from these books, articles, GTM's poetry, and other writings in the left hand column of the homepage.
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From Nietzsche to Wittgenstein: The Problem of Truth and Nihilism in the Modern World (1989)
This book offers comprehensive interpretations
of both Nietzsche and Wittgenstein and draws on
the mystical traditions (especially Buddhist
thought in relation to Wittgenstein) to address
the problem of truth and value in the modern
world. It attempts to show that the
Wittgensteinian project of seeing clearly the
limits of language can serve as a compelling
answer to Nietzsche’s diagnosis that we are
facing crisis of nihilism (values) in the modern
world.
Millennium Dawn:
The Philosophy of Planetary Crisis and Human
Liberation
This book synthesizes a transformative
social-political-economic philosophy with a
philosophy of human spiritual and intellectual
maturity and develops practical suggestions for
realizing a transformed world order in terms of
the ethical, spiritual, and eschatological
dimensions demanding such transformation. It
advocates a transformative modality of critical
theory, compassion, and nonviolence and offers
an interpretation of human spirituality that
unites the core values of the various religious
traditions from around the world.
World Revolution
through World Law: Basic Documents of the
Emerging Earth Federation
(2005)
This book includes the most fundamental
documents of the emerging earth federation such
as the Declaration of the Rights of Peoples, the
Manifesto of the Earth Federation, and the
Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
It also includes an introduction, a
commentary on the Earth Constitution, and
several other essays by Glen T. Martin.
Ascent to Freedom:
Practical and Philosophical Foundations of
Democratic World Law
(2009)
This book
lays out both the practical and conceptual
foundations for a transformed world order –
responding directly to our multiple global
crises through the
holistic
approach of bringing genuinely democratic
world law to the Earth. It develops a
philosophical framework for democratic world law
by drawing on the scientific revolutions of the
twentieth century, the history of democratic
thought, and contemporary discussions of human
rights. It traces the history of the philosophy
of law from ancient times to the present,
showing the progressive development of
democratic thought that culminates in the
imperative for global democracy. It concludes by
developing the parameters of a conversion to
democratic world law for protecting the
environment and human rights as well as creating
a transformed world system of peace and prosperity for everyone on
Earth.
Triumph of
Civilization: Democracy, Nonviolence, and the
Piloting of Spaceship Earth
(2010)
This book
examines the concept of democracy and the
related concept of nonviolence in the light of
the global crises we face at the dawn of the 21st
century.
It develops a deeper understanding of
democracy that is inherently nonviolent and
fundamentally holistic. It argues that the way
out of our current set of interdependent crises
and systemic violence is to establish an Earth
Federation through actualizing, under a world
constitution, the three most fundamental
features of authentic democracy: positive
freedom, reasonable economic equality, and a
global community premised on the many “human
universals” that we all share, as well as the
common good of the Earth and future generations.
Emerging World Law
(3 volumes, co-edited with Eugenia Almand)
(2009-2013)
This book exhibits international law maturing
into world law through world constitutional and
parliamentary processes. Self-governing
democratic processes emerge globally under the
direction of world citizens who take initiative,
insisting on human dignity, individual
accountability, and peaceful world relations.
The
volume presents the Constitution for the
Federation of Earth as well as the
memorials, resolutions, and legislative
summaries of the Provisional World Parliament
during its first ten sessions, 1982 to 2007. Dr.
Terence Amerasinghe recounts the 50 year history
of the World Constituent Assemblies and the
Provisional World Parliament. Dr. Almand
clarifies interpretations of the democratic and
non-military Constitution, showing why no
amendments are needed before the nations and
people of Earth ratify the Constitution.
Dr. Martin analyses the problem of origins and
legitimacy of emerging world law, showing the
difficulties and dynamics of transforming
presently outmoded international institutions in
the direction of a genuine global democracy.
Constitution for
the Federation of Earth: With Historical
Introduction, Commentary, and Conclusion
(2010)
This book represents the first
time the
Constitution for the Federation of Earth has
been appeared in print from an official press
with its own ISBN number.
The
Constitution was developed by a drafting committee of 25 persons
with feedback from hundreds of world citizens
over a period of 33 years from 1968 to 1991.
This premiere edition, includes a
substantive historical introduction situating
the Earth
Constitution within the world federalist
movement of the past 80 years, an extensive
commentary on the
Constitution that explains the significance
of its 19 articles one by one, and a conclusion
that discusses the larger meaning of the
Constitution and the Earth Federation
Movement that promotes it. The book includes
bibliography and index as well as a number of
appendices containing the relevant documents
surrounding the
Constitution and the Earth Federation
Movement.
The Earth
Federation Movement: Founding a Social Contract
for the People of Earth. History, Documents,
Philosophical Foundations
(2011)
This book lays out
the foundations of the Earth Federation Movement
in terms of its history and its philosophical
grounding that includes sections on “ethical
holism,” “democratic holism,” and “political
holism.”
It includes eleven documents from the
movement that illustrate these principles and
several appendices with supplementary
information.
Una
Constitucion para la Federacion de la Tierra.
El Manifiesto de la Federation de la Tierra
(2011)
My 2003 work, The Manifesto of
the Earth Federation, has been translated
into Spanish by Dr. Eugenia Almand, edited by
Dr. Rita Martin, and published in a separate
volume with a Spanish translation of the
Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
Pamplin, VA: Institute for Economic
Democracy Press, September 2011 (156 pages).
(Many Scholarly Articles in GTM's CV are not listed here. These can be found
through normal bibliographical searches.)
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