Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Eudaimonic Collectivism: Reimagining Human Flourishing Through Community, Meaning, and Shared Wellbeing presents a new theoretical framework for understanding the relationship between individual and collective flourishing.Drawing upon psychological research, philosophy, social theory, contemplative traditions, and doctoral research conducted in Auroville, India, Ian D. Clayton-Smith examines a fundamental question: how might human beings organise collective life in ways that enable both individuals and communities to flourish?The book develops the concept of Eudaimonic Collectivism, a relational approach to human flourishing in which individual and collective development are understood as potentially reciprocal processes. It explores the importance of autonomy, belonging, authentic relationships, meaningful participation, personal growth, shared purpose, and opportunities for valued contribution, while also examining the ways power, inequality, exclusion, coercion, and social organisation can support or constrain human development.Moving from the psychological foundations of eudaimonic wellbeing to questions of community, capitalism, work, technology, artificial intelligence, and the future of human contribution, the book considers how institutions and societies might be evaluated not only by what they produce, but by the kinds of human lives they make possible.Eudaimonic Collectivism does not propose a political ideology, an economic blueprint, or an ideal society. Instead, it offers a developing interdisciplinary framework for examining how individuals shape the communities and institutions in which they live, how those environments shape the possibilities available to individuals, and how these processes may become mutually reinforcing.Ultimately, the book invites psychologists, researchers, scholars, policymakers, community leaders, and interested readers to reconsider one of humanity’s oldest questions: not simply how individuals might flourish, but how we might flourish together.
