An engaging account of ambition, the forces that drive and
constrain it, and whether it serves our deepest needs. Ambition is
a dominant force in for human civilization, driving its greatest
achievements and most horrific abuses. Our striving has brought
art, airplanes, and antibiotics, as well as wars, genocide, and
despotism. This mixed record raises obvious concerns about how we
can channel ambition in the most productive directions. In
Ambition, Deborah L. Rhode offers a comprehensive and engaging
survey of the topic that focuses in particular on the nature of
ambition in contemporary American life. To do this, she first
explores three central focuses of ambition-recognition, power, and
money-and argues that an excessive preoccupation with these
external markers for success can be self-defeating for individuals
and toxic for society. She then shifts to discussing the obstacles
to constructive ambition and the consequences when ambitions are
skewed or blocked by inequality and identity-related
characteristics such as gender, race, class, and national origin.
Rhode further addresses the ways that families, schools, and
colleges might play a more effective role in developing positive
ambition. Finally, she examines what sorts of ambitions contribute
to sustained well-being, such as building relationships and
contributing to society, rather than chasing extrinsic rewards such
as wealth, power, and fame. Drawing upon leading thinkers on the
topic and contemporary social science research while laying out an
agenda for how ambition can be better developed, Ambition will
force us reconsider the factors that shape our ambitions, and
whether those ambitions meet our deepest needs and highest
aspirations.
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