Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

Subscribe to Read | $0.00

Join today and start reading your favorite books for Free!

Create Free Account

Quick and Easy Sign Up!

It takes less then 1 minute to sign up, then you can enjoy Unlimited eBooks.

Sign Up Browse

Read Anywhere and on Any Device!

  • Download on iOS
  • Download on Android
  • Download on iOS

A Guide for the Perplexed

Ernst F. Schumacher
3.97/5 (1045 ratings)
Read Now Download Now
The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. Man has obligations—to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living.

Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker—in this instance, Schumacher—is to find for everything its proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and their proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead.

A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Edition:
Worn Condition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0060906111
ISBN13:
9780060906115
kindle Asin:
B01GC6VWJ8

A Guide for the Perplexed

Ernst F. Schumacher
3.97/5 (1045 ratings)
Read Download
The author of the world wide best-seller, Small Is Beautiful, now tackles the subject of Man, the World, and the Meaning of Living. Schumacher writes about man's relation to the world. Man has obligations—to other men, to the earth, to progress and technology, but most importantly himself. If man can fulfill these obligations, then and only then can he enjoy a real relationship with the world, then and only then can he know the meaning of living.

Schumacher says we need maps: a "map of knowledge" and a "map of living." The concern of the mapmaker—in this instance, Schumacher—is to find for everything its proper place. Things out of place tend to get lost; they become invisible and their proper places end to be filled by other things that ought not be there at all and therefore serve to mislead.

A Guide for the Perplexed teaches us to be our own map makers. This constantly surprising, always stimulating book will be welcomed by a large audience, including the many new fans who believe strongly in what Schumacher has to say.
Format:
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Harper Perennial
Edition:
Worn Condition
Language:
eng
ISBN10:
0060906111
ISBN13:
9780060906115
kindle Asin:
B01GC6VWJ8

More Books

The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Jane Jacobs

Utopia

Thomas More

Bronze Age Mindset

Bronze Age Pervert

The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

Lü Dongbin

A Country Doctor's Notebook

Mikhail Bulgakov

The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods

Antonin Sertillanges

Il fascismo eterno

Umberto Eco

Japonisme: Ikigai, Forest Bathing, Wabi-sabi and more

Erin Niimi Longhurst

Believe: Why Everyone Should Be Religious

Ross Douthat

Why I Write

George Orwell

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Islamic Theology and the Problem of Evil

Safaruk Chowdhury