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Unreconciled: Being Human in the 21st Century
Hardcover
PhilosophyTechnology & EngineeringGeneral Sociology
Publisher Price: $46.99
ISBN13: 9781738448234
Publisher: Sea Salt Publishing
Published: May 28 2026
Pages: 260
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
We are fragmented. Distributed across digital and physical worlds, pulled between the local and the planetary, exhausted by the demand to be coherent in a world that no longer is. Something has shifted in how we lead, how we belong, how we understand ourselves - and the old frameworks are no longer enough.
Unreconciled is a bold philosophical exploration of what it means to be human today. Rather than offering false resolution, it proposes something more honest and more liberating: that we can stop exhausting ourselves in pursuit of impossible coherence and instead learn to inhabit our complexity through reconnection to the natural texture of our landscapes and community.
At the heart of the book is the Planetary Philosophy, a framework built on three interwoven principles:
- Motion invites us to embrace change rather than resist it
- Boundaries asks us to see the edges of our worlds not as barriers but as spaces of possibility
- Unreconciliation, the book's central idea, proposes that we can hold contradictions without collapsing them, that fragmentation need not be loss, and that multiplicity can be a feature rather than a flaw
These ideas matter for all of us, but they carry particular weight for leaders. In a world of accelerating complexity, fractured institutions, and dissolving certainties, the capacity to hold tension-to lead without false resolution-may be the defining skill of our time. Part exploration, part meditation, part map, Unreconciled weaves together philosophy, research, poetry, and original illustration. It argues for reconnection - to the natural world, to embodied experience, to one another - not through a return to the past, but through a new kind of presence.
This book is for:
- Leaders navigating complexity and organisational change
- Thinkers seeking frameworks for identity, belonging, and meaning in the 21st century
- Anyone who feels fragmented by modern life and wants a path beyond exhaustion
Whoever you are, and whatever you bring, there is common ground here.
About the Authors
Dr Julian Stodd is a writer, researcher, artist, and explorer. Through 22 books spanning fifteen years, his work examines leadership, learning, culture, and identity at the intersection of the digital and the social. He founded Sea Salt Learning to partner with complex global organisations on leadership capability and strategic change.
Dr Sae Schatz is a designer of systems, strategies, and sense-making. Her career spans academia, business, and government, including leading the Pentagon's Advanced Distributed Learning programme. She advises organisations worldwide on emerging technologies and human-centred science.
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