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The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One (Metamodern Guides 1) Kindle Edition

by Hanzi Freinacht (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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As we move from the industrial age and its nation state to an internet age with a globalized postindustrial market a question presents itself: What is the next major developmental stage of society after the liberal democracy with a balance between capitalism and welfare state?

In this book Hanzi Freinacht offers a compelling answer to this question. We are reaching the limits of modern society and we must work to achieve a metamodern society, that is, a society which goes beyond modern life and its institutions. The metamodern society of the future is a listening society; a society more sensitive to the inner dimensions of human beings.

Drawing upon an elaborate weaving of psychology, sociology, political science and philosophy this book lands in a positive vision for the future. It shows how a clear description of human psychological growth - how we grow as human beings - can also offer us key insights into how global society can and should evolve in the internet age. A politics that can help humans grow to the later stages of psychological development is also one that can be capable of meeting the staggering challenges of our time.

In the first part of the book Hanzi examines the politics and culture of the Nordic countries and shows how these progressive societies offer a fertile ground for metamodern politics. The basis of such metamodern politics is also described. In the second part of the book he turns to developmental psychology, describing how humans evolve through a series of stages - and how this matters immensely for the happiness and survival of us all.

As this story unfolds - in a uniquely provocative genre breaking manner - you will also glean insight into your own developmental stage and those of people around you.

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    Hanzi Freinacht is a political philosopher, historian and sociologist, author of ‘The Listening Society’, ‘Nordic Ideology’ and the upcoming books ‘The 6 Hidden Patterns of History’ and ‘Outcompeting Capitalism’. Much of his time is spent alone in the Swiss Alps.

    As a writer, Hanzi combines in-depth knowledge of several sciences and disciplines and offers maps of our time and the human condition with his characteristically accessible, poetic and humorous writing style – challenging the reader’s perspective of herself and the world.

    Hanzi Freinacht epitomizes much of the metamodern philosophy and can be considered a personification of this strand of thought. He has produced a wide array of original, relevant and useful ideas for people in all walks of life. These ideas help you gain an upper hand in the new political, economic and cultural landscape of digital, postindustrial society.

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Jon Twigge
5.0 out of 5 stars The future of society depends on this stuff
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2024
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If you are interested in what drives people, how societies work and where the world might go - this is an excellent and important read.
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Chris
5.0 out of 5 stars Dangerous, Humbling, insightful masterpiece
Reviewed in the United States on February 1, 2018
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I sit before you a humbled child, viewing for the first time the world through a powerful new set of eyes.

Hanzi speaks with a deeply well earned heir of confidence in this book as he lays bare the deepest and most personal layers of our inner worlds and why our inner worlds and their development matter.

I'd been dissatisfied with postmodernism's incoherence, lack of metanarrative (although I didn't know the word for it at the time), and lack of criticism of itself and its methods. Eventually online debates lead me to a person who recommended some articles on Metamoderna written by Hanzi and associates, and the comprehensive fullness of his perspectives and approaches brought me a lot of hope. When I heard about this book coming out I had to have it, and I haven't been able to put it down since I picked it up.

Make no mistake, this book is not for the faint of heart. Hanzi is not gentle with his dismantling of bad ideas and bad theory, and his familiarity with the topic and comprehension of it shines through in very clear, straightforward arguments with solid structure, objective and useful measures and interpretations of human development and politics. He does not hold any punches, and they are deeply correct punches, so they will hurt if you are not ready for them.

He, and reviewers, call this book dangerous. It absolutely is. The concepts in it will absolutely be simplified and flattened, misinterpreted and miscommunicated countless times in the future to potentially devastating effects. But the perspective of adult developmental psychology and developmental stages with the inclusion of complexity presents a perspective and a model for thinking about the world and solving it's problems that the world is in dire need of.

This book provides the most comprehensive model and codebook of metamodern cultural code I've read and nothing else comes within miles of it. Along the way, it will bring you to tears, make you laugh, and give you a profound sense of gentle hope, that our problems are not as hopeless as they seem without this perspective.

His writing style is engaging, casual, and so honest it may bring you to tears with it's profound sincerity.
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Wyatt Martin
5.0 out of 5 stars and I think it makes good on its promise
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2018
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I found it essential reading for a student of philosophy and life. I think it offers a new way of understanding the world, one that adds clarity and so-called real-world application, and I think it makes good on its promise. Amazing for anyone already interested in politics, sociology, systems theory, futurism, history, or numerous other touched upon areas. It claims to be a metamodern guide and I think it is also essential reading for readers familiar or unfamiliar with metamodernism. It accurately presents, adds to, and renders the "philosophical engine" of metamodernism visible for all understand the associated ideas and behaviors. I would quote some of the actual text but it is too difficult to decide which sections to value above others.
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BK
5.0 out of 5 stars A very important book
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2020
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The emergence of metamodernism, as it is disclosed through this text, is a meaningful and significant contribution to our collective capacity for sense making and meaning making. I really hope that increasing numbers of people get exposed to these ideas, and more importantly, to this kind of perspective taking, so that we can help each other to pass through critical thresholds that need to be crossed, socially, culturally, politically, and philosophically, in order for us to co-create a social world that embodies and represents our shared potential as a species.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A dangerous book that will change the world
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2018
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I may be a naive fool for believing in Hanzi when he talks of the possibility to create a world that will radically improve the lives of all sentient beings. Yet at the same time, his analysis is sharp and on point. This is a dangerous book that in the right hands of the young generation, can truly shape the emerging future. I strongly recommend you read the whole thing, not just the first part, but especially the second, and the appendix and the notes as well. This book has helped me make sense of a complex and ever developing world. Read it!
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IC
1.0 out of 5 stars This is not smart.
Reviewed in Canada on July 20, 2023
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I was hopeful, when I first heard of Metamodernism, that something new was happening. I like to be up on current philosophical trends; and since it's now apparent that Postmodernism is a bit of a dead end, I really wanted to know what was logically going to be next.

It's not this. This is shallow twaddle. It's like a novel written by some undergrad who has staggered home from his first university classes at Christmas Break, and it sitting at the dinner table, trying to lecture his parents with his eyes closed...totally unaware how foolish and presumptuous he looks. This is people who are not smart trying to be terribly, terribly indirect and clever. They couldn't even bother to have a real author...they had to invent one to cover the irregularities of their mismatched arguments.

The authors -- the real ones -- are clearly full of themselves, full of arrogance, and full of Socialism, but really devoid of wisdom. It's irritating even to read a few pages of this self-important claptrap, but I persevered until the lack of logic became to agonizing, the preening and puffery became to annoying and the pain of the stupidity became overwhelming.

Just don't bother. Don't waste your money. This is junk.
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Welf von Hören
5.0 out of 5 stars Easily the most powerful ideology in existence
Reviewed in Germany on April 16, 2020
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People who read this book will understand human behavior and culture better than those who don’t, and they will significantly outcompete them. In the best interest of all beings.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone should read this
Reviewed in Japan on May 21, 2023
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Anyone interested in a better for all should read this. It's written in a deliberately provocative style that will alienate many people, but it provides non exclusive manifesto for a better society which makes it worth persevering with until the very end.
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AFH
5.0 out of 5 stars A valuable & accessible guide to this brave new 'metamodernism' world we find, or indeed lose, ourselves in
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2017
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For those trying to make some sense of the world in 2017, this is essential reading. It's one of those books that articulates the thoughts you have when you're at your most brilliant, and grounds them in a theory and system so you can integrate them into your day to day intelligence. I would recommend it unreservedly to Twitter politicos, armchair philosophers and even those in fields like sales & coaching - this book, for example, makes so much sense of the world of NLP without even mentioning it.

It's written with a lot of verve, personality and chutzpah - some might say cockiness but it ain't bragging if you can back it up, and the text is more lucid and accessible than anyone reading about post-post-modernism should really dare to expept. The book isn't short, but you may be surprised how quickly you get through it.

Although a hygge free zone strictly speaking, anyone with an allergy to books about the superiority of the Nordic way of life (there's been a few) might find themselves sneezing as the book could be read, I suppose, as a Hegelian version of that. But if you can get past that, there's a lot of value here.
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Jon
5.0 out of 5 stars I read a lot. This is the best book I have ever read. I also don’t review....
Reviewed in Australia on June 19, 2020
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Decisive discourse on the nature and future of society. With any luck this book is prophetic.
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