ITHACA, N.Y., Dec. 13, 2006 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Behavior-Economics defines behavior as a function-system implicit to the process life. In the brilliant new book, The Management of Fate, Eric Graf explores the function-implicit lawfulness in which the modern human existence generates itself in its diverse manifestations, while generating its own ecological conditions in the dynamic that characterizes the process Life.
This tome is based on the axiom "Life is an incorporative-recursive process that generates itself in its manifestations as individual organism-processes." The Management of Fate explores, on the basis of this process-dynamic, major experience-phenomena that defines the human existence as they are: human sexuality, willfulness, language, the experience of the mind, community, and the experience of free will.
"The purpose of the book is to re-examine our understanding of the evolving of the modern human mind as behavior-orientation-system in its own polarity of fundamental and central dimensions, as it determines our experience of our existence in which we create 'our world'. This modern human mind's impact upon the ecological system that defines Life in its manifold diversity cannot be fully appreciated when we assume this mind to be a more or less spiritual entity that we have. In fact we cannot adequately manage our own ecological system given this understanding," says Graf. In The Management of Fate, he gives a clear definition of the human experience out of that process-dynamic that determines all manifestations in which Life, as the diversity of organism-processes, generates and manages its existence.
About the Author
Eric Graf was born in Germany in 1924 and was an actor on a variety of German stages for a number of years. After leaving the theater, he studied psychology, sociology, and philosophy, first at the University of Munich and later at the University of Zurich where he received his doctoral degree. He came to the United States in 1958 where he initially taught psychology in North Carolina then in Pennsylvania. He permanently joined the faculty of Ithaca College in 1963, was the chairperson of the Department of Psychology for twenty-four years and retired in 1994 to write The Management of Fate.
Management of Fate -- By Eric Graf
Introduction to Behavior-Economic-Ecology
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