Finding Your Third Place

How To Rebuild and Transform Our Communities

Richard Kyte (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

160 Seiten

2024
Fulcrum Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-68275-472-6 (ISBN)

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Do you have a Third Place? Your first place is home, your second place is work, and your third place is where you go to socialize. As more of our lives are spent online and in digital spaces, these often overlooked ""Third Places” play a crucial role in keeping our communities vibrant. In a timely and thoughtful examination, Richard Kyte, PhD, explores the places that nurture our souls and make up the bedrock of our communities. Third Places can range from a neighborhood tavern, to a community center, to a local bookstore or coffee shop. They are the critical gathering spaces where friendships are formed, relationships are nurtured, and the tapestry of community is woven. Yet, for an ever-growing list of reasons, many people today find themselves without a third place of their own. At a time when our nation is facing an epidemic of loneliness, when communities are suffering from loss of trust, low levels of engagement, despair, and political polarization, what if the answer to many of our problems lies in a simple idea? What if we just need to pay attention to the places where we find ourselves

Richard Kyte is Director of the D. B. Reinhart Institute for Ethics in Leadership and Endowed Professor of Ethics at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin where he teaches a variety of courses dealing with ethical issues in business, health care, law, politics, and the environment. He has published and lectured widely on topics related to justice, forgiveness, virtue, and the meaning of life.Richard attended Hamline University where he earned a B.A. in philosophy. He then went on to graduate school, obtaining a Ph.D. in philosophy from The Johns Hopkins University in 1994.

Erscheinungsdatum	23.05.2024
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	127 x 203 mm
Gewicht	31 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-68275-472-3 / 1682754723
ISBN-13	978-1-68275-472-6 / 9781682754726
Zustand	Neuware