Título: Trump and a Post-Truth World
Autor: Ken Wilber
Sinopse: A provocative and balanced examination of our social and political situation in the wake of the Trump presidencyby a cutting-edge philosopher of our times The world is in turmoil. As populist waves roil in the UK, Europe, Turkey, Russia, Asiaand most visibly, the U.S., with the election of Donald Trumpnationalist and extremist political forces threaten the progress made over many decades. Democracies are reeling in the face of nihilism and narcissism. How did we get here? And how, with so much antagonism, cynicism, and discord, can we mend the ruptures in our societies? In this provocative work, philosopher Ken Wilber applies his Integral approach to explain how we arrived where we are and why there is cause for hope. He lays much of the blame on a failure at the progressive, leading edge of society. This leading edge is characterized by the desire to be as just and inclusive as possible, and to it we owe the thrust toward womens rights, the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the concern for oppression in all its forms. This is all evolutionarily healthy. But what is unhealthy is a creeping postmodernism that is elitist, politically correct, insistent on an egalitarianism that is itself paradoxically hierarchical, and that looks down on deplorables. Combine this with the techno-economic demise of many traditional ways of making a living, and you get an explosive mixture. As Wilber says, for some Trump voters: Everywhere you are told that you are fully equal and deserve immediate and complete empowerment, yet everywhere you are denied the means to actually achieve it. You suffocate, you suffer, and you get very, very mad. It is only when members of societys leading edge can heal themselves that a new, Integral evolutionary force can emerge to move us beyond the social and political turmoil of our current time to offer genuine leadership toward greater wholeness.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Trump and a Post-Truth World”, de Ken Wilber, publicado pela editora Shambhala Publications, em 2017 e com 161 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Shambhala Publications
Páginas: 161
Ano: 2017
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1611805619
ISBN13: 9781611805611
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Shambhala Publications costumam oferecer uma experiência de leitura que mistura espiritualidade prática com reflexão profunda sobre o ser humano e seu lugar no mundo. O catálogo apresenta obras que exploram tradições orientais, especialmente o budismo tibetano, com textos que vão desde comentários meditativos até relatos de vivências em contextos culturais remotos. Há também publicações que dialogam com a psicologia ocidental e a ecologia, trazendo uma abordagem integrativa e contemporânea. A linguagem varia entre o didático e o poético, com um ritmo que pode ser tanto contemplativo quanto instigante, dependendo do tema. As sinopses sugerem um interesse por temas como autoconhecimento, ética, práticas meditativas e a relação do indivíduo com a natureza e a sociedade.
