Immediacy: How Our World Confronts Us and How We Confront Our World - Hardcover

Katz, Fred E.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 157197184X ISBN 13: 9781571971845

Publisher: Ivy House Pub Group, 2000

Synopsis

IMMEDIACY: HOW OUR WORLD CONFRONTS US & HOW WE CONFRONT OUR WORLD explores an entirely new paradigm for understanding the social-psychological playing field on which we live our lives.

Among the issues it illuminates are the seductive appeal of cults and false messiahs; our moral world's potenially deadly embrace of us, resulting in a Local Moral Universe that can be entirely malignant; the dark side of our personal careers, a Second Path that can thrive in secrecy alongside the publicly visible side of our career; the presence of order amid the immediacy in which we exist, in the forma of five dimensions: trancendence, constrictions, impingings, transformations, and unknowable components whose limits are precisely knowable.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

This book is the product of an individual who spent years in virtual silence and who now speaks with confiction; who learned the dignity of being a laborer working with one's hands and now celebrates the joy of taking ideas seriously; who began as a child refugee, and has lived in five countries as a wanderer, who now shows us empowering groundings in the immediate world in which we live. Here is an individual who lost his parents and his brother in the Nazi Holocaust who acts with optimism that we can create a science to give us more benign control over our lives. He sees the idiocies and lingering pain of warfare--following well over 100 million violent deaths in the past century--as a testament to our lack of an effective science of human behavior, and the challenge to do something about it. This book is a step in that direction.

About the Author:

Fred Emil Katz earned a B.A. from Guilford College and an M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Before that he worked in factories; after that he had an academic career as a teacher, researcher, and writer. He now concentrates on writing, hiking, and volunteer work.

About this edition

• Publisher: Ivy House Pub Group
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 157197184X
• ISBN 13: 9781571971845
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 179