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  • Entrepreneurial Vocations: Learning from the Callings of Augustine, Moses, Mothers, Antigone, Oedipus, and Prospero

    Author(s): Martin H. Krieger
    Pages: 210
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    978-0-7885-0253-8
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    978-0-7885-0252-1
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  • Table of Contents

    Preface: Creation and Tragedy
    1. Building and Growing: Augustine and Paul on Dominion and Redemption
    2. Commitment: Moses and the Israelites as a Story of Binding, Sacrifice, and Mission
    3. Devotion: Mothers and Their Children
    4. Creative Destruction: Antigone and Oedipus, Courage and Technology
    5. Restoring the Veil of Order: Redemption and Design for Oedipus, Prospero, and Their Daughters
    Epilogue
    Appendix: Teaching and Self-Study Guide
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Index

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    Originally Published by Scholars Press
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    In this interdisciplinary work, Martin H. Krieger examines the entrepeneur in terms of modes and ideal figures drawn from religion and classical studies. In so doing, he provides a means or vocabulary with which entrepreneurs can articulate their experience of risk, commitment, and judgment. In addition, by establishing a comparison between the entrepreneur and the figures he utilizes from religious and classical literature, Krieger generates surprising new ways to look at the careers of such traditional figures as St. Augustine, Moses, Oedipus, Antigone, and the characters of Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Both an exercise in the humanities and in the pragmatic world of business, Krieger’s work offers an intriguing methodology for how humanistic learning can be applied to the real world concerns of the entrepreneur. A teaching and self-study guide to Entrepreneurial Vocation is included as an appendix for those wishing to adopt the text as a classroom resource.

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