Rethinking the Heart of Being Human: (A Reflective Adventure With Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Addams, and John Dewey) - Softcover

Leffers Ph.D., Regina

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1482502305 ISBN 13: 9781482502305

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

This book examines a paradigm shift, which can be investigated on three levels as components of a single whole, suggested in the philosophic work of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Jane Addams, and John Dewey. Through this process, a new, more accurately human model is constructed, one which is ultimately more humane because of that accuracy, than the one by which the majority of us currently fashion our living. The dominant ideology in Western philosophy and culture is androcentric, portrays us as isolated individuals, and characterizes us as capable of being objective and detached observers. All three prongs of this ideology are problematic: our implicit habits of thinking and living androcentrically are based on faulty conceptions of girls and boys, women and men; and neither the conception of human beings as isolated individuals nor that which characterizes human beings as capable of being objective and detached observers corresponds to experience, making both concepts unhelpful and misleading. We are energy-event-complexes, body-minds who are always in transactional processes which transform us.

About this title

About the Author:

Regina Leffers, Ph.D., earned her doctoral degree in Philosophy from Purdue University. She has authored several books, most recently, "Sustainable Construction and Design" and "The Green Age" with co-authors, Matt Kubik and Patrick Ashton. Regina has had a continuing practice of daily meditation for more than thirty years. She is a retired professor, an artist and active, daily creator.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1482502305
• ISBN 13: 9781482502305
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 134