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  title info:
    title: Ambition
    sub title: for what
  name:
    name part: Rhode, Deborah L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 332 pages ; 25 cm.
  abstract: Ambition is a dominant force in for human civilization, driving its greatest achievements and most horrific abuses. Our striving has brought art, airplanes and antibiotics, as well as wars, genocide and despotism. This mixed record raises obvious concerns about how we can channel ambition in the most productive directions. To that end, the book begins by exploring three central focuses of ambition, recognition, power and money. It argues that an excessive preoccupation with these external markers for success can be self defeating for individuals and toxic for society. Discussion then shifts to the obstacles to constructive ambition and the consequences when ambitions are skewed or blocked by inequality and identity-related characteristics such as gender, race, class and national origin. Attention also centers on the ways that families, schools and colleges might play a more effective role in developing positive ambition. The book concludes with an exploration of what sorts of ambitions contribute to sustained well being. Contemporary research makes clear that that, even from a purely self-interested perspective, individuals would do well to strive for some goals that transcend the self. Pursuing objectives that have intrinsic value, such as building relationships and contributing to society, generally brings greater fulfilment than chasing extrinsic rewards such as wealth, power and fame. And society benefits when ambitions for self advancement do not crowd out efforts for the common good. The hope is to prompt readers to reconsider where their ambitions are leading and whether that destination reflects their deepest needs and highest aspirations.
  table of contents: Recognition -- Money -- Power -- Gender -- The development of ambition and the role of class, race, ethnicity, and national origin -- Families and schools -- Conclusion: Ambition for what? At what cost.
  note: Deborah L. Rhode.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Ambition
  classification: BJ1533.A4 R46 2021
  classification: 179/.9
  identifier: 9780197538333
  identifier: 0197538339
  identifier: 9780197538357
  identifier: 9780197538364
  identifier: 2021008288
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210327
    record change date: 20220105155224.0
    record identifier: in00004367818