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Doing Life: A Pragmatist Manifesto

Lee Thayer

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Description:This book offers a remarkable new perspective on how and why people "do life" as they do. It is a provocative set of essays about how people could or should think about doing life for the benefit of their own well-being and that of their families and friends.It is about how your feelings and your thinking interfere with how you should be doing the life you desire. It is a book about the mistakes you make in doing life, and how you could avoid those mistakes.It is the kind of book you can use to maximize your choices about doing life as you would have it done, and about mastering the influences of the world around you.There is no paper-and-pencil test about doing life. The life that you can have is the life that you can do.-----Lee Thayer is a scholar and writer known around the world for his many years of research and publications on the human condition. He has taught or lectured at many of the most prestigious universities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and China. He has been a Fulbright professor in Finland, a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard, and was twice awarded a Danforth Foundation Teacher Award for excellence in his teaching. His background is in music (composing and arranging), the humanities, engineering, and social and clinical psychology. He was one of the founders of the field of communication as a university discipline, and is a Past President of what was at that time the largest association of human communication scholars in the world. He was also the founding editor of the influential journal Communication, which was devoted to pragmatic insights into the human condition by the top thinkers in the world. His early work consisted of 14 books of research on the connection between communication and the human condition. More recently, he has summarized his long life of research into all matters human and social in such books as Communication: A Radically New Approach to Life’s Most Perplexing Problem, two collections of essays, On Communication and Pieces: Toward a Revisioning of Communication/Life. The present Doing Life; A Pragmatist Manifesto is a summary of his innovative perspectives on this subject for past 60 years. There is also his proposed alternative to the reach of biological evolution into the social sciences, Explaining Things: Inventing Ourselves and our Worlds. He lives in Western North Carolina with his artist/wife Kate Thayer. He is also renowned for his current work as a CEO coach of choice.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doing Life: A Pragmatist Manifesto. To get started finding Doing Life: A Pragmatist Manifesto, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 260

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Xlibris

Release: 2012

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Description: This book offers a remarkable new perspective on how and why people "do life" as they do. It is a provocative set of essays about how people could or should think about doing life for the benefit of their own well-being and that of their families and friends.It is about how your feelings and your thinking interfere with how you should be doing the life you desire. It is a book about the mistakes you make in doing life, and how you could avoid those mistakes.It is the kind of book you can use to maximize your choices about doing life as you would have it done, and about mastering the influences of the world around you.There is no paper-and-pencil test about doing life. The life that you can have is the life that you can do.-----Lee Thayer is a scholar and writer known around the world for his many years of research and publications on the human condition. He has taught or lectured at many of the most prestigious universities in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, Scandinavia, Australia, and China. He has been a Fulbright professor in Finland, a Ford Foundation Fellow at Harvard, and was twice awarded a Danforth Foundation Teacher Award for excellence in his teaching. His background is in music (composing and arranging), the humanities, engineering, and social and clinical psychology. He was one of the founders of the field of communication as a university discipline, and is a Past President of what was at that time the largest association of human communication scholars in the world. He was also the founding editor of the influential journal Communication, which was devoted to pragmatic insights into the human condition by the top thinkers in the world. His early work consisted of 14 books of research on the connection between communication and the human condition. More recently, he has summarized his long life of research into all matters human and social in such books as Communication: A Radically New Approach to Life’s Most Perplexing Problem, two collections of essays, On Communication and Pieces: Toward a Revisioning of Communication/Life. The present Doing Life; A Pragmatist Manifesto is a summary of his innovative perspectives on this subject for past 60 years. There is also his proposed alternative to the reach of biological evolution into the social sciences, Explaining Things: Inventing Ourselves and our Worlds. He lives in Western North Carolina with his artist/wife Kate Thayer. He is also renowned for his current work as a CEO coach of choice.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Doing Life: A Pragmatist Manifesto. To get started finding Doing Life: A Pragmatist Manifesto, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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