REVIEWS

Literary Titan, Review
Literary Titan, Gold Book Award: Nonfiction
Princeton Alumni Weekly, Featured Author
Booklife, Review
Kirkus, Review
Readers Favorite, Website
The Existential Moment, Review
Washington Examiner, Quote

Quotes

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."

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."

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."

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."