Reviews
Reviews
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Literary Titan, Review (5-stars); Gold Book Award: Nonfiction
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Princeton Alumni Weekly, Featured Author
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Booklife, Review
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Kirkus, Review
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Reader's Favorite, Review (5-stars)
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The Existential Moment, Review
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Washington Examiner, Expert Commentary
Acclaim
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#1 in "New Releases in Existentialism" on Amazon
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#1 in "New Releases in Social Theory" on Amazon
Quotes
Literary Titan
"Gibbs’s greatest strength is his determination to look for common structures beneath sharply different ideologies. He refuses the comfort of assigning all responsibility to one religion, nation, or political camp. Instead, he shows how fundamentalism can develop on the left or right and in religious or secular settings when fear turns identity into something absolute."
Booklife
"Gibbs’s deep understanding of interpersonal conflict is here applied, with insight and power, to international and historical violence, in the interest of demonstrating our “universal participation” in the creation and perpetuation of “identity systems” whose convictions and assumptions feed these conflicts."
Kirkus
"Gibbs, who has an undergraduate degree in history from Princeton University and an advanced degree in clinical psychology from the California Institute of Integral Studies, offers a well-researched, nuanced perspective that doesn’t simplify the complexities of recent history. A smart but dense and demanding interdisciplinary study of global friction."
The Existential Moment
"At its deepest level, Gibbs’s “turning” begins with recognizing a fundamental misapprehension: we mistake process for substance, emergence and unfolding for fixed reality. We take the fluid, relational process of selfhood for a stable “thing” and the worlds we inhabit for self-evident realities. The turning asks us to acknowledge this folly, face the groundlessness it conceals, and accept rather than flee or fix it."