Disclosing New Worlds - Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity (Paperback, New Ed)

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.

General

Imprint:	MIT Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Disclosing New Worlds
Release date:	February 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Charles. Spinosa • Fernando Flores • Hubert L Dreyfus (Professor of Philosophy)
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	222
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-262-69224-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Promotions
LSN:	0-262-69224-4
Barcode:	9780262692243

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