Research Catalog

Title

Disclosing new worlds : entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the cultivation of solidarity / Charles Spinosa, Fernando Flores, and Hubert L. Dreyfus.

Author

Spinosa, Charles

Publication

• Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1997]
• ©1997

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Additional Authors

• Flores, Fernando, 1943-
• Dreyfus, Hubert L.

Description

x, 222 pages; 24 cm

Summary

• 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 cultivation 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.
• According to the authors, there are two major perils to history-making in Western society. One is the Cartesian tradition, which celebrates stepping back from everyday life to understand the world on the basis of rational deliberation. Against this, the authors advocate an intense involvement in the anomalies of everyday life as a means to understand the world and the changes it needs. The second is the neo-Nietzschean tendency to embrace radical, individual change for its own sake. Now that anyone can log on to the Internet to try on a new personality, the authors argue, it becomes increasingly urgent that we retrieve our history-making skills, both in our everyday lives and in our public roles.

Subject

• Social action
• Collective behavior
• Entrepreneurship
• Social change
• Mass Behavior
• Entrepreneurship
• entrepreneurs
• 71.41 social changes (sociology)
• 89.35 democracy
• Collective behavior
• Social action
• Social change
• Innovation
• Kreativität
• Führung
• Charisma
• Alltag
• Selbstverantwortung
• Sozialethik
• Sociale verandering
• Ondernemerschap
• Politieke activiteit
• Solidariteit

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-208) and index.

Contents

The ontological structure of everyday history-making -- Entrepreneurship : the skill of cultural innovation -- Democracy : the politics of interpretive speaking -- Solidarity : the ground of meaningful community.

ISBN

• 0262193817
• 9780262193818
• 0585077320
• 9780585077321

LCCN

96029295

OCLC

• ocm35198550
• 35198550
• SCSB-9056987

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library