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Disclosing New Worlds: Entrepreneurship, Democratic Action, and the Cultivation of Solidarity Paperback – February 18, 1999

by Charles Spinosa (Author), Fernando Flores (Author), Hubert L. Dreyfus (Author)
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Argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture—that is, when they are making history.

Disclosing New Worlds calls for a recovery of a way of being that has always characterized human life at its best. The book argues that human beings are at their best not when they are engaged in abstract reflection, but when they are intensely involved in changing the taken-for-granted, everyday practices in some domain of their culture—that is, when they are making history. History-making, in this account, refers not to wars and transfers of political power, but to changes in the way we understand and deal with ourselves. The authors identify entrepreneurship, democratic action, and the creation of solidarity as the three major arenas in which people make history, and they focus on three prime methods of history-making—reconfiguration, cross-appropriation, and articulation.

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A brave attempt to reformulate the relationship between democratic rights and economic progress in an age when the triumphalism of technological advance masks an unconfident vision of the future.—Peter Aspden , Financial Times—

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Hubert L. Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ MIT Press; Revised ed. edition (February 18, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 232 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0262692244
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262692243
  • Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ 1450L
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.53 x 9 inches
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  1. Charles Spinosa

    Charles Spinosa

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    I have been a management consultant since 1996 focused on leadership

    development, culture change, and new customer propositions. I've worked

    with clients ranging from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies in financial

    services, manufacturing, media, high tech, healthcare, and utilities,

    located in Europe, North and Latin America, and China.

    With Fernando Flores and Bert Dreyfus, I wrote Disclosing New World. It’s a

    Heidegger-inspired account of innovation in business, politics, and

    society. With Matt Hancocks and Hari Tsoukas, I wrote Leadership as

    Masterpiece Creation: What Business Leaders Can Learn from the Humanities

    about Moral Risk-Taking. The book introduces the skills and conceptual

    frameworks for leaders create morally distinct masterpiece businesses.

    I started out as a university professor teaching Shakespeare at Miami

    University and then Heidegger at U. C. Berkeley. I published over 30

    scholarly articles.

    My BA is from Columbia College; my Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley.

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    Hubert L. Dreyfus

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    Hubert Dreyfus is Professor of Philosophy in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley. After receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard University, he taught at MIT, before coming to Berkeley in l968. Dreyfus has been a Guggenheim Fellow, and has received research grants from both the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He holds a Doctorate Honoris Causa from Erasmus University, Rotterdam, and is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

    You can follow him on Twitter @hubertdreyfus; or on Facebook at “All Things Shining”.

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Ernest Stambouly
5.0 out of 5 stars The Handbook for Enterpreneurs and Virtuous Citizens
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2011
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I read this book the first time as a modern-day philosophical work, then I read it again from "how can I use it?" The first effect it had on me is dispelling the common understanding of Entrepreneurship with all its common connotations.

The book is generous in powerful distinctions needed to produce a new and superior understanding of Entrepreneurship, political and social activity.

I observe business people around me looking for ideas to innovate, as if ideas existed out there somewhere to be grabbed and acted upon. Noticing and observing "disharmonies" in the world, in day-to-day life, work, and social activities is a source for creating new possibilities for ourselves and others around us.

There are those who act upon observed pervasive disharmonies, take responsibility and grant themselves authority to produce opportunities, new thinking and useful action, and there are those who frown at, criticize, and complain about situations that resist their common sense and "normal" solutions. It's a choice. It's what separates the producers and innovators of the World from the rest.

I utilize this book as a manual and a source for developing my business, generating new offers for my customers, and as a basis for cultivating discursive networks with colleagues and others who share the ambition of Entrepreneurship: I see it as the Ethics of bringing advantage to everyone.
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Kian
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the most important books I have read
Reviewed in the United States on May 23, 2014
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I chose this book because I am a great fan of the work of Hubert Dreyfus, who is the philosophical inspiration behind this talented team. Spinosa and Flores, both accomplished individuals in their own right, were his students. They added, I am guessing, the dimensions of entrepreneurship and political theory to the philosophy. I am most interested in the debate in political theory between liberalism and communitarianism. I have read a reasonable amount, and find the treatment here very original, imaginative and powerful. It is one of the best defenses of communitarianism I have seen. It seems not to have received the attention it deserves from either the public or scholarly community. It is an excellent example of philosophy seeking to inform how we should lead our lives, or at least provide the conceptual tools to think more deeply about how to live, as individuals and in our communities. It does require some patience with complex arguments and writing. I would recommend it very highly.
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Matthew Horvat
4.0 out of 5 stars What innovation are you working on?
Reviewed in the United States on August 26, 2009
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I read and hear so much about innovation it looses meaning. What is innovation anyway? The authors say that innovation and (for lack of a better term) being the most happy are one and the same. The authors claim that life is best (we are most happy) when we are in the middle of a positive change in how we do things. Notice that it is "how" we do things, not "what" we do.

So, for example, I enjoy teaching others what I know. There is a person I regularly interact with that doesn't appreciate being "taught". By only suggesting practices that are needed at the time, I've been able to reach this person. I had to change how I worked with her. Not what I did. This was an innovation and felt great.

The authors provide the how to innovation that we are looking for. The ideas need time to cook. This is a book to read once through then think on the concepts for a year. Refer to the book to understand again what the authors are saying.

Disclosing New Worlds is foundational for devoted students of human change. It belongs on the shelf next to other great philosophers. But practically, what innovation are you working on?
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5.0 out of 5 stars Book in excellent condition
Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2021
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Very clean copy, like new. Many thanks!
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Ana
3.0 out of 5 stars Overly complex language for no reason
Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2023
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While these folks make some good points, they do it in the most pedantic fashion possible. Literally textbook definition of the word pedantic. The most helpful idea I have for future readers is for you to buy a digital version of this book and ask ChatGPT to explain each chapter to you in a simple manner so that you can actually get through the nonsense of the language these people use and how complex they make their points.
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Robert P. Broderick
5.0 out of 5 stars How to Make History
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2014
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A great book, supremely well thought out and reasoned, on how to make history. Flores and Spinosa have written a guide to how entrepreneurs make history and how citizens can too.
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Arun Kumar Tripathi
5.0 out of 5 stars Philosophical Exploration of the Fundamental Principles
Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2002
Disclosing New Worlds is a philosophical exploration of the fundamental principles that underlie entrepreneurial activity, democratic action and the cultivation of solidarity. Through a number of real-life examples, it shows how excellence in these three domains of social activity is brought about-not with a detached, rational deliberative stance, but with intense involvement in the practices of the culture and critical reflection on the anomalies of everyday life. "Disclosing New Worlds gets to the heart of corporate entrepreneurship. It combines rigorous philosophical thinking with rich descriptions of everyday corporate, democratic and social life. The result is a book that accurately portrays a set of important skills not yet taught in our schools."
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Eric Traub
4.0 out of 5 stars More needed now than ever
Reviewed in the United States on July 13, 2008
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This book suffers from only a few negatives: First, it was published ten years too early, way ahead of its time. This book is far more relevant to the issues of today than it was in 1999, although the matters it addresses are really timeless. Second, the writing is fairly cerebral and requires the philosophical mindset to penetrate. It's useful, maybe even necessary, to have some familiarity with the sources behind the ideas presented. Yet, anyone with patience and intent can derive great benefit from the ideas in this book. Careful reading of this work offers tangible, applicable approaches for those interested in "history-making" in a specific domain. The authors explore the terrain of producing meaningful changes in human identities and the worlds in which those identities are embedded. With so many how-to style books on the market, this one fills in a much needed missing piece: the underlying architecture of generative innovation. The authors are each worthy gentlemen in their own rights who have dedicated themselves to practicing what they proffer here, so this book is the real deal. Inspiring and powerful.
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