Doing Life A Pragmatist Manifesto: A Pragmatist Manifesto - Hardcover

Thayer, Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1469163446 ISBN 13: 9781469163444

Publisher: Xlibris, 2012

Synopsis

This is a book about how and why people do life as they do It is as well a book about how people could or should think about doing life for the benefit of their own well being and that of the people they associate with It is a book about how our feelings and our thinking interfere with how we could be doing the life we dream of It is a book about the mistakes we make in doing life and how we could avoid those mistakes It is a book about what causes us to be the way we are It is a book about why we often can t do life as we wish It is about the personal dragons that stand in our way And it is about how the real world outside of us can frequently frustrate even our best intentions It is about ramping up for doing life and then trying to understand why our lives so often turn out in ways we had neither anticipated nor desired It is about how getting involved with others means our lives are forever altered It is about why that could be a good thing or a bad thing and how to best figure that out in advance It is a book about frustration and regret about pleasure and pain It is about participating in life s trials and tribulations by choice 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 what happens in the world around you It is about undoing the life you have in order to be able to do life the way it should be done

About this title

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1469163446
• ISBN 13: 9781469163444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 262