Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Prisoners of the Real: An Odyssey

An intellectual odyssey – from Pythagoras to planetary consciousness. Prisoners of the Real makes the connection between solar and lunar knowledge, illustrating the cost of society’s preoccupation with certainty and order. With insights from linguistics, psychology, physics, literature, philosophy and management science, it opens the door to a new vision of freedom and cooperation – Dionysian leadership.


“Dionysian leaders use artistic methods to invent structures of reality. Although they acknowledge that scientific and artistic processes have equal worth, they de-emphasize logical reasoning and deduction and focus on metaphorical thinking. Their interest is not definition but discovery.”


Section One: The Rational Trap


The Creative Also Destroys

Deconstructing Leadership

Anatomy of Insecurity

Managers and Their Tools

The Corporate Way of Life

The Dictatorship of Time

Rules for Rationals

The Age of Adaptability

Living with Rational Management

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Section Two: Philosophy of the Real
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Defining the "Real World"

Questions of Knowledge

The Path of Certainty

Man the Brute

Surrender to Authority

Rise of the Reasonable State

Hegel’s Dialectical Progress

The Ultimate Reality of Karl Marx

Conditional Ascension & Factual Fetishism

Section Three: New World Disorders

The Outsider’s Choice
Life, Death and Lost Generations

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