Agency: The Psychological History of Human Progress
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Drawing on six decades of pioneering research and a sweeping reexamination of the last 2500 years-from Periclean Athens and the Hebrew Torah to the Renaissance, the Enlightenment and the Civil Rights Movement-Martin Seligman shows how rises and falls in agency have steered the course of history.
Agency is the big idea for our times: when individuals have confidence, optimism and imagination, civilizations leap forward. In their absence, societies stagnate-no matter how rich their resources or how brilliant their citizens.
This remarkable book shows how individuals can act with agency and, with a clear-eyed view of an AI-transformed future, argues that we are entering the next great era of human flourishing.
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Praise for Agency
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For decades, Martin Seligman has been psychology's great renovator, turning a field preoccupied with what goes wrong into a rigorous science of what can go right. InAgency, he widens that lifelong project, boldly surveying the whole sweep of human history to show how our capacity for authorship has emerged, faltered, and can be reclaimed. This book feels both like the capstone of a brilliant career and the beginning of a new paradigm.Agency is a thrilling achievement from the person who has most changed how we think about human flourishing.
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