The Hungry Spirit : New Thinking for a New World

ISBN-13: 9780099227724 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 272 str.

Charles B. Handy

Opis

Analysing how materialistic capitalism is self-limiting, how efficiency may be the enemy of a cohesive society, this work examines the false certainties of science and religion. It builds a theory of meaning, based on the research for identity the role of the arts and the idea of immortality.

Recenzje

"The Hungry Spirit is the distillation of a lifetime's experience, a personal recipe for what we have to do to survive in a capitalist society." People Management

O autorze

Charles Handy is a writer and broadcaster, known to many for his 'Thoughts for Today' on the BBC's Today programme. He was named as Business Columnist of the Year in 1994 for some of the pieces in this collection. His books, including The Empty Raincoat, have sold over one million copies worldwide. He has been, in his time, an oil executive, a business economist, a Professor at the London Business School and Chairman of the Royal Society of Arts. He and his wife Elizabeth, a portrait photographer, live in London, Norfolk and Tuscany.