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- Publisher:
- Anthem Press
- Online publication date:
- January 2023
- Print publication year:
- 2022
- Online ISBN:
- 9781839980589
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This collection affords a panoramic view of prominent stars and glittering constellations of practical philosophical insight, ranging across a spectrum of humanistic themes that pervade the galaxy of the author's expansive mind. These essays cast pellucid light - whether candid, controversial, or politically incorrect - on our perennially imperfect human condition.
The collection ranges over Alfred Korzybski's general semantics; Thomas Mann's prognosis for Western civilization; Hume's moral skepticism applied to globalization; Jungian synchronicity and encounters with Irvin Yalom; convergence of Nietzsche, neuroscience and Buddhism; Ayn Rand's prophetic apocalypse; philosophical practice as Dadaist activism; humanities-based therapies as remedies for culturally-induced illnesses; dangers and detriments of over-digitalized and hyper-virtualized lifestyles and learning methods; and forces that both favor and impede the re-emergence of philosophy from inactive academic entombment to pro-active modes of personal guidance, social influence, consumer advocacy, and political engagement. The essays are thought-provoking yet also uplifting. A unifying claim of this eclectic anthology is the cautionary tale that humanity's recurrent and conflict-ridden predicaments are only exacerbated by myopic analyses, toxic ideologies, and expedient prescriptions. While philosophy is scarcely a panacea for human afflictions, its proper exercise illuminates our understanding of them, thereby suggesting better as opposed to worse ways forward.
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