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Radical Man Hardcover – January 1, 1971

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Charles Hampden-Turner (1934) is a British management philosopher, and Research Associate at Cambridge since 1990. He is the creator of Dilemma Theory, and co-founder and Director of Research and Development at the Trompenaars-Hampden-Turner Group, in Amsterdam. He grew up in Cambridge and was educated at Wellington College, a military public school attended by his father. On finishing military service, he attended Trinity College, to read Social History, For Tripos II, he read Law. Politically, he was a keen debater. He applied at the Harvard Business School and inn his second year he discovered a talent for Organisational Behaviour, starting a lifelong interest. He joined the faculty as a research associate in the Department of Organisational Behaviour. He published his Doctoral Thesis as 'Radical Man' in 1969. He joined an inter-disciplinary program on graduation focusing with a group of Black Community organizers. This work on human rights continued, until President of Harvard indicated he was keen to restrain scholars from working on social problems, saying "Scholars should not involve themselves in the nation's slums and ghettoes." Hampden-Turner disagreed, and moved on. He joined a radical think tank,The Cambridge Institute, founded by historian Gar Alperowitz and sociologist Christopher Jencks, staffed largely with Harvard and MIT members. The group avoided fashionable socialist and Marxist views, preferring a free-thinking approach in search of new social solutions. For three years, Hampden-Turner worked in ghettoes, and poor rural communities, from the Bedford-Stuyvesant Corporation in New York, to Eskimo reindeer herding in Alaska and getting in the watermelon harvest in Southwest Georgia, developing social and intellectual policy solutions.
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    520 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
  4. Publication date
    January 1, 1971
  5. ISBN-10
    0715606077
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0715606070
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  • M-AZ
    5.0 out of 5 stars Would be incredibly useful to progressive teachers, parents, and other leaders
    Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2016
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    I would give this book 10 stars if I could. I won't repeat what other reviewers have said, but Amazon requires some commentary, so here it is... This book is a broad penetrating examination of psycho-socialization, social theory, and social practices on the philosophical and theoretical level with the aim of defining and liberating "human nature" from the constraints of (mostly modern) psycho-social conditioning. I could see this being incredibly useful to teachers, psychoanalysts, leaders of empowerment movements, parents, and introspective thinkers. Hampden-Turner is high on my list of Top 5 Authors of All Time.
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  • G. R. Drake
    2.0 out of 5 stars Absurdism over everything?
    Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2021
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    This little remembered book was written during the heyday of the New Left in the United States. Over 450 pages laden with jargon, psychobabble, and too many tables and charts, the author does stumble across a few gems here and there. Ultimately, his attempt to put absurdism over everything, including material conditions, by arguing that men are free to decide their own fate falls flat.

    As Marx remarked, "Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past."

    In his attempt to overlook class divisions among people as unimportant, Hampden-Turner actually portrays them as simply "facts of life" that we can work with or around. Rejecting class struggle as a factor and possible pathway to resolve real existing divides in this society, his only remedy is "communication." As if the working class could simply talk Wall Street out of pursing profit instead of the satisfaction of human needs!

    He even goes as far as arguing "the real reason we have been so backward in helping black people, in reversing our policy in Viet Nam, in aiding the Third World and in confronting Communists is our total underestimation of the virtues of vulnerability, anxiety and pain." It's as if global politics and economic interests had nothing to do with slavery, Jim Crow or the war in Vietnam! If only President Johnson valued "the virtue of vulnerability," millions of lives could have been saved.

    Of course the arguments laid out in this book aren't very radical at all. In fact, they are anything but. Little wonder that Hampden-Turner ended up writing books on improving corporate culture later in life. He already accepted the framework of corporate America. All he had to do was find his place in it.
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  • Tim Lukeman
    5.0 out of 5 stars Escaping the prison
    Reviewed in the United States on April 3, 2020
    Lately I've been re-discovering books from the golden age of humanistic psychology & philosophy, from roughly 50 years ago or so. It's a forward-looking, holistic approach to life & psyche & society that's been largely forgotten in the intervening decades, replaced by a meds-solve-everything-(by-covering-it-up) school of psychology & a Social Darwinist philosophy of culture & society, where money & status & power are all that matter.

    Yet books such as this one accurately diagnosed the fatal flaws of that current superficial & potentially fatal worldview, showing how it inevitably led to alienation, depersonalization, and an lack of meaning that no amount of money or distractions could fill. At the same time, it offered a different approach to life, one that held great promise & seemed on the verge of becoming more mainstream. Yet that different approach was squelched, for the most part, in favor of what we've got now.

    What happened?

    The "problem" with that different approach, of course, is that it demanded courage & self-awareness on the part of human beings, a willingness for self-examination & the painful process of individual growth. While the rewards were immense—a healthier & richer psyche for the individual, a healthier & richer society as a whole—too many people were enmeshed in the consumer society of other-directed thinking. The judgment of others did far more to shape (or rather, to deform) the life of the individual than his or her own authenticity. In fact, words like authenticity, individuality, freedom, etc., were co-opted by the consumer culture & used to manipulate the public to being anything BUT those things.

    And so it continues today. People devote more & more of their lives to gathering Facebook "friends" & posting selfies & struggling (and of course failing) to keep up with the latest 10,000 trending items … all of which will be superseded by another 10,00 in a minute or so. In all of this, there's simply no room for a person to explore what being a person really means, much less any incentive to do so.

    RADICAL MAN is a reminder of what we still have the potential to become, and how a better society is still possible—if we can become aware of the forces shaping us & learn to resist them. (It all sounds rather like THE PRISONER or THE MATRIX, doesn't it? But then artists have always been among the most farsighted prophets in every culture.) For anyone who doesn't want to be reduced to a commodity, a brand, a disposable part, this book still rings true today. Most highly recommended!
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  • Floating World
    5.0 out of 5 stars Radical Man: an outline
    Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2016
    Most influential single volume work I read in my teens. Full of the sheer scope of human psychology and morality, it led to a higher level of perception in the world. Still relevant in the post-modern global cacophony of beliefs, I recommend this insight into the depths of human behavior. [Add. 2024. Especially important in the book is the experimentation done by empirical psychologists on human behavior. Much of this research was and is applied in areas like consumer sales and political campaigns. Especially abhorrent is that done on children. The Western world is manipulated by a more powerful force than the authoritarian regimes. But they are learning fast with help from Western ad agencies and universities.].
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