A Guide for the Perplexed

Schumacher, E. F.

ISBN 10: 0060804637 / ISBN 13: 9780060804633

Published by HarperCollins (edition 1st Edition Thus), 1978

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The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Guide for the Perplexed
• Publisher: HarperCollins (edition 1st Edition Thus)
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060804637
• ISBN 13: 9780060804633
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition Thus.
• Condition: Fair

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Synopsis

For those who are perplexed, this is a guide. Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers.

From the Back Cover

An inspired critique of modern materialistic values and a road map for achieving one's true, higher potential from "one of the wisest minds of our time."*

"This is what my life has been leading to," said the maverick economist E. F. Schumacher upon completing A Guide for the Perplexed, his summation of a lifetime of wisdom. The author of the classic Small Is Beautiful, the "eco bible" (Time) named one of the Times Literary Supplement's 100 Most Influential Books Since World War II, Schumacher charts the failings of "materialistic scientism," the system of thought that dominates the developed world and which Schumacher charges with narrowing the horizons of human experience. Instead, he seeks to offer a new, far more expansive "map for living" that liberates our goals beyond the constraints of logic and inspires in us the faith to choose a life of higher significance. "Our ordinary mind always tries to persuade us that we are nothing but acorns," he writes, "but that is of interest only to pigs. Our faith gives us something much better: that we can become oak trees."