Subject(s): Adult learning -- Democracy and education -- Lifelong learning and the learning society -- Global and local lifelong learning policies in the knowledge economy -- Social pressures to produce lifelong learning policies -- International political agencies -- National policies -- Regional and local response -- NGOs -- Non governmental organisations -- Modernity -- Development and utilisation of scientific and technological knowledge -- Individualism and freedom -- Rationality and pragmatism -- Capitalism and society -- Mercantile capitalism and religion -- Industrial capitalism , the church and the state -- Global capitalism and weakened state -- Information society: learning global capital culture -- Information society -- Indoctrination and the learning society -- Brainwashing and thought reforms -- Education -- Global totalism -- Ethics and modernity -- Moral development -- Capitalism -- Ethics of lifelong learning and the learning society in global capitalist society -- Democracy and learning society -- Rawls theory of liberal democracy -- Modern economic thought -- Agapistic relationship -- Public debate