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OverviewA reissue of EF Schumacher's classic work on the fundamental place and purpose of philosophy to celebrate the centenary of his birth. A Guide for the Perplexed is E. F. Schumacher's classic work of philosophy and a statement of the philosophies that underpin his economic masterpiece Small is Beautiful. Schumacher asserts that it is the task of philosophy to provide a map of life and knowledge, which exhibits the most important features of life in their proper prominence. Full Product DetailsAuthor: E F SchumacherPublisher: Vintage Publishing Imprint: Vintage Edition: New edition Dimensions: Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 19.80cm Weight: 0.138kg ISBN: 9780099480211ISBN 10: 0099480212 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 19 October 1995 Recommended Age: From 0 years Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviewsA condensation of a vast and refreshingly unorthodox system of ideas -- Arthur Koestler Observer Schumacher's arguments are invigorating, provoking, and often dramatic New Statesman The most exciting philosophical book for ages Daily Mail There is a rich store of wisdom and understanding, embedded in the religions of East and West, which our dangerous preoccupation with science has scanted and ignored... This book is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way. Sunday Telegraph Schumacher is interested in looking at art, and making sense of, the world as a wholel and in helping the reader to do the same. To this end he unfolds his own metaphysical map...with a humour and clarity I have never before encoutnered in a philosophical text. Ecologist A condensation of a vast and refreshingly unorthodox system of ideas -- Arthur Koestler Observer Schumacher's arguments are invigorating, provoking, and often dramatic New Statesman The most exciting philosophical book for ages Daily Mail There is a rich store of wisdom and understanding, embedded in the religions of East and West, which our dangerous preoccupation with science has scanted and ignored... This book is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way. Sunday Telegraph A condensation of a vast and refreshingly unorthodox system of ideas -- Arthur Koestler * Observer * Schumacher's arguments are invigorating, provoking, and often dramatic * New Statesman * The most exciting philosophical book for ages * Daily Mail * There is a rich store of wisdom and understanding, embedded in the religions of East and West, which our dangerous preoccupation with science has scanted and ignored... This book is about the different ways in which people may see and the blindness of only seeing in one particular way. * Sunday Telegraph * Under Maimonides' title, Schumacher expands on the patchwork religious-philosophical elements in his earlier Small Is Beautiful. Drawing on Scholasticism, Eastern religions, and yoga, he enumerates four Levels of Being - mineral, vegetable, animal, and human - and four Fields of Knowledge relating to the internal and external aspects of the self and others. Contending that modern philosophy and science, or, collectively, Scientism, deal only with the lowest Level of Being, the mineral, and with external appearances, Schumacher argues that meaningful knowledge (Wisdom) can only be attained through self-awareness, which transcends consciousness (the attribute of the highest, human Level of Being). Schumacher views human life as consisting of problems which are not amenable to the simple technical solutions of scientism, and which can only be dealt with by Wisdom (ecology is an example) - hence the title. Like all works that attempt to describe mystical experiences or knowledge, this book lacks the concrete theoretical elaboration that allows for the transfer of that knowledge - we have to take Schumacher's word for it because he cannot describe it. The argument for Faith ultimately rests on Faith itself. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationBefore the publication of Small is Beautiful, his bestselling reappraisal of Western economic attitudes, Dr E. F. Schumacher was already well known as an economist, journalist and progressive entrepreneur. Born in Germany, he first came to England in 1930 as a Rhodes Scholar to study economics at New College, Oxford. Later, at the age of twenty-two, he taught economics at Columbia University, New York. As he found theorising without practical experience unsatisfying, he then went into business, farming and journalism. He resumed the academic life for a period at Oxford during the war, afterwards serving as Economic Adviser to the British Control Commission in Germany from 1946 to 1950. In later years, his advice on problems of rural development was sought by many overseas governments. Dr Schumacher was awarded the CBE in 1974. He died in 1977. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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