challenges, we must indeed ebsp;but this is not enough: we must also grow. In other words, we must exercise both love (the drive to unity) and power (the drive to selfrealization). If we choose either love or power, we will get stubsp;in recreating existing realities, or worse. If we want to create new and better realitiesat home, at work, in our unities, in the worldwe need to learn how to ie our love and our power.
Power and Love is both practibsp;and personal. Many researchersacross politibsp;sbsp;peabsp;studies, ma, neurobiology, sociology, psychology, philosophy, theologyhave used a variety of framings and vocabularies to point out the importanbsp;of power or love or both. The purpose of this book is not to reiterate or review these specialized theories, but to explore how in general and in practibsp;we bsp;work with power and love to address our toughest challenges. Furthermore, I have not structed my uanding of these phenomena out of these theories, but instead out of sifting through and trying to make sense of my own most fusing and challenging experienbsp;of social ge.
Years ago I was amazed when I read the first pages of the sed volume of Lawrenbsp;Durrell's novel The Alexandria Quartet. Balthazar hands Darley, the narrator, the markedup manuscript of Darley's first volume: "a paper now seared and starred by a massive interlinear of sentences, paragraphs and questionmarks." The sed volume then goes on to relate a radically different interpretation of the same events that Darley had described in the first one, and the third and fourth volumes do the same again from two additional perspectives.
Many times during the past twenty years, I have been handed alternative interpretations of my own stories. I am moving along fidently, and then somebody says something that shows me things are not at all the way I think they are. Through subsp;disciplined reviewing of my own experiences, I have gradually built up my uanding of the dynamibsp;of social ge.
The book begins with "Introdu: Beyond War and Peace," whibsp;summarizes what I have learned. Chapter 1, "The Two Sides of Power," and Chapter 2, "The Two Sides of Love," describe these two fual drives that gee social ge. Chapter 3, "The Dilemma of Power and Love," explains why we ot choose between these drives but must find a way to recile them. Chapter 4, "Falling," Chapter 5, "Stumbling," and Chapter 6, "Walking," lay out a progression of three modes of employing power and lovefrom the most polarized and stubsp;to the most ied and fluidin w collectively to effebsp;social ge. In "clusion: To Lead Means to Step Forward," I suggest a way to work individually through this same progression, from falling to stumbling to walking, and so bee more capable of addressing our toughest challenges.
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