Humanity’s Conumdrum

Published: 28th September 2021 – Buy Now!

Why do we suffer? And how do we heal?

These may be the two most innocently profound questions we ask of ourselves and others. In Humanity’s Conundrum, David Zigmond uses them as stepping stones to explore the familiar yet endlessly troubling predicament of being human.

His account is an editorial and publishing puzzle: what is it? Psychology? Philosophy? Psychotherapy? Evolutionary biology? Spirituality? Theology? Self-help?… This very unusual book is all, yet none of these. Here, clearly, the whole is more than the sum of its parts.

Is evolution progress? Why is Homo Sapiens both gifted with such reason, yet cursed with such turbulent restlessness? How may we calm our anomalous nature? Here is an alternative psychology, and another way of viewing our history – both personal and as a species.

This small book will delight in its deceptions: its slimness bursts with wide-ranging ideas, complexity is leached with clarity, weighty seriousness levitates with playfulness and wit.

Humanity’s Conundrum may be a brief read but its ideas will linger in the reader far longer.