|
|
Navigation Bar
Child Abuse and
Neglect 507 North Sullivan Road Suite A-3 Spokane Valley WA 99037-8531 USA Phone: (509) 922-4849 Fax: (509) 922-5310 Email: childabuseandneglectresearch@hotmail.com Website: www.childabuseandneglectresearch.org
|
Book Review
Book Reviewer: Karen Jean Matsko Hood Doctoral Student in the Leadership Studies Program at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington; working to complete her Ph.D. degree in Leadership Studies.
Title of Book Reviewed: How We Became Posthuman
Subtitle of Book Reviewed: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics
Author of Book: N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher of Book Reviewed: The University of Chicago Press: Chicago & London
Year of Book Copyright: 1999 Book Review: Professor Hayles chemistry and English training becomes apparent in her writings. Her writing illustrates the scientific and genetic human to its possible termination via the way of the dinosaur or perhaps by becoming machines themselves.
This definitely provokes terror in myself and most people and not pleasure as suggested early in her book. Nonetheless, her writing is successful at getting us to ponder life.
Book Review
Book Reviewer: Karen Jean Matsko Hood Doctoral Student in the Leadership Studies Program at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington; working to complete her Ph.D. degree in Leadership Studies. Title of Book Reviewed: Reverence
Subtitle of Book Reviewed: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue
Author of Book: Paul Woodruff is the Mary Helen Thompson Professor of the Humanities at the University of Texas in Austin. A widely published translator of Plato, Thucydides, and other ancient writers, he had written four previous books on classical philosophy and political thought.
Publisher of Book Reviewed: Oxford University Press
Year of Book Copyright: 2001 Book Review: Reverence is a delightful yet professional book on the lost virtue of reverence. Professor Woodruff used his education and study of Plato, Thucydides, and Confucius to outline the importance of leadership in our daily thoughts.
Here are some quotes that reinforce the importance of reverence on leadership in practices.
“Leadership and tyranny are so closely tied in our experience that we often find it hard to tell them apart. One man’s leader is another’s tyrant. When we contrast leadership and tyranny we are dealing in values.” (p. 163)
“True, good leaders must have good followers, but a good follower sometimes disobeys when an order is plainly wrong.” (p. 164) Reverence for each other allows respect for one another. Yet, free thinking and good values must overtake blind following.
“Leadership (as opposed to tyranny) happens only where there is virtue, and reverence is the virtue on which leadership most depends.” (p. 165)
“Because reverence fosters leadership and education. Most important, because reverence kindles warmth in friendship and family life.” (p. 13)
I highly recommend this book for reflection and educational purposes. As a student in Leadership Studies I appreciate being present a new lens through which to view the study of Leadership styles. The virtue of reverence was greatly respected in ancient times and has been lost in the post modern era. Professor Woodruff successfully challenges us to revisit this virtue and incorporate it into our daily lives and leadership styles.
Why write about reverence? Because we have forgotten what it means. Because reverence fosters leadership and education. Most important, because reverence kindles warmth in friendship and family life. And because without reverence, things fall apart. People do not know how to respect each other and themselves. An army cannot tell the difference between what it is and a gang of bandits. Without reverence, we cannot explain why we should treat the natural world with respect. Without reverence, a house is not a home, a boss is not a leader, an instructor is not a teacher. Without reverence, we would not even know how to learn reverence. To teach reverence, you must find the seeds of reverence in each person and help them grow. (Woodruff, 2001, p. 13).
“Leadership and tyranny are so closely tied in our experience that we often find it hard to tell them apart. One man’s leader is another’s tyrant.” (Woodruff, 2001, p. 163).
“Leadership (as opposed to tyranny) happens only where there is virtue, and reverence is the virtue on which leadership most depends.” (Woodruff, 2001, p. 165).
Book Review
Book Reviewer: Karen Jean Matsko Hood Doctoral Student in the Leadership Studies Program at Gonzaga University, Spokane, Washington; working to complete her Ph.D. degree in Leadership Studies.
Title of Book Reviewed: High Tech, High Touch
Subtitle of Book Reviewed: Technology and Our Accelerated Search for Meaning
Author of Book: John Naisbitt with Nana Naisbitt and Douglas Phillips
Publisher of Book Reviewed: Nicholas Beasley Publishing
Year of Book Copyright: 1998, 2001 Book Review: This book serves as an eye opener and provokes some concerns about our future in tech society.
The catharsis conundrum chapter definitely speaks to our ongoing problem with children and what they are faced with today in our culture of daily violence. Can they really separate the truth from reality or does this cause them to blur reality with fiction?
|
|