| Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity Revised Edition Contributor(s): Spinosa, Charles (Author), Flores, Fernando (Author), Dreyfus, Hubert L. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0262692244 ISBN-13: 9780262692243 Publisher: MIT Press OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1999 Annotation: "Disclosing New Worlds" calls for a recovery of a way of being that has always characterized human life at its best. The book argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture--that is, when they are making history. History-making, in this account, refers not to wars and transfers of political power, but to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the creation of solidarity as the three major arenas in which people make history, and they focus on three prime methods of history-making--reconfiguration, cross-appropriation, and articulation. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Entrepreneurship - Philosophy | Political - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 306 |
| Lexile Measure: 1450 |
| Series: Mit Press |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.65" W x 8.7" (0.77 lbs) 232 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture--that is, when they are making history. Disclosing New Worlds calls for a recovery of a way of being that has always characterized human life at its best. The book argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture--that is, when they are making history. History-making, in this account, refers not to wars and transfers of political power, but to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the creation of solidarity as the three major arenas in which people make history, and they focus on three prime methods of history-making--reconfiguration, cross-appropriation, and articulation. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dreyfus, Hubert L.: - Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley. |