Killer Competitiveness (The Blue Trilogy, 3) [Paperback]

Ronald E. Puhek (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1892590085 | ISBN-13: 978-1892590084 | Publication Date: October 30, 1998 | Edition: 1 Ed

Killer Competitiveness is the third and last book of the Blue Trilogy. We explored the meaninglessness that dominates life today in Meaning and Creativity, the first book of the series. Then we face a great challenge when we take up a path to meaning in the second book, The Abyss Absolute. This last book accounts for how it is possible for us today to exist so long under meaningless conditions without realizing it. So empty is life without meaning that it could continue only with the help of an extremely powerful illusion. This compelling illusion is generated by competitiveness in nearly everything we doeven in our supposed efforts to cooperate or function independently. Competitiveness generates the illusion of value. Therefore, we do not see the valuelessness of our lives even as we suffer from it.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

If you value M. Scott Pecks The Road Less Travelled, Merton, Hesse, Pirsig, Simone Weil, St. Theresa and St. John of the Cross, you'll benefit from Puhek. It's plainly written but maximumly intense integration work for a modern age. His reflections build on, and develop through, many works, including those of Plato, Sartre, Jung and Freud. END

Product Details

• Paperback: 130 pages
• Publisher: Out Your Backdoor; 1 Ed edition (October 30, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1892590085
• ISBN-13: 978-1892590084
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,019,904 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

I retired in 2006 from teaching at Michigan State University. The program I have participated in there since 1966 is an undergraduate program in integrative studies. Born and raised in Hibbing, Minnesota, I came to Michigan State after studying for my bachelor's degree at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, for my Master's degree at the Johns Hopkins University, and my Ph.D. degree at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln. In 1969 a colleague and I established the Michigan Institute of Existential Metapsychology; the primary way I have participated in it is by organizing and leading weekly seminar sessions and a week-long summer seminar at a resort in northern Minnesota.