
Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3
Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3
Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3
Source: New Testament and Mythology and Other Basic Writings (1941), p. 3
Deep Thoughts: Inspiration for the Uninspired (1992), Berkley Books, ISBN 0-425-13365-6
Introduction
Cosmic Imagery: Key Images in the History of Science (2008)
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985)
Context: The world in which we live is very nearly incomprehensible to most of us. There is almost no fact... that will surprise us for very long, since we have no comprehensive and consistent picture of the world which would make the fact appear as an unacceptable contradiction.... in a world without spiritual or intellectual order, nothing is unbelievable; nothing is predictable, and therefore, nothing comes as a particular surprise.... The medieval world was... not without a sense of order. Ordinary men and women... had no doubt that there was such a design, and their priests were well able, by deduction from a handful of principles, to make it, if not rational, at least coherent.... The situation we are presently in is much different.... sadder and more confusing and certainly more mysterious.... There is no consistent, integrated conception of the world which serves as the foundation on which our edifice of belief rests. And therefore... we are more naive than those of the Middle Ages, and more frightened, for we can be made to believe almost anything.
Source: 1980s-1990s, Sensemaking in Organizations, 1995, p. 36; as cited in: Haridimos Tsoukas, Jill Shepherd (2009), Managing the Future: Foresight in the Knowledge Economy, p. 99