Passion and Social Constraint

ISBN-13: 9780202308975 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 386 str.

Ernest Van Den Haag; Ralph Ross

Opis

In intellectual and academic circles, Ernest van den Haag was respected for his brilliant mind, his outspoken and often highly controversial assertions, and a very unacademic, sharp, biting style.

Spis treści

One: Personality; I: The Humanization of Infants; II: The Oedipus Complex; III: Who Is Normal?; IV: Sex, Repression, and Beyond; V: Treatment; VI: The Family as an Industry; Two: Society; VII: Groups; VIII: The Basic Tension of Group Membership; IX: Rivalry, Competition, and Conflict; X: Leadership, Authority, and Power; XI: Culture, Passion, and Affectations; XII: The Conflict between Economic Progress and Social Well-Being; XIII: Class, Estate, and Caste; XIV: Expansion, Mobility, and the Class System; XV: Democracy and Elites; XVI: Roles and the Prestige of Histrionics; XVII: Snobbery (and the Supreme Court’s Prescription); Three: Popular Culture; XVIII: Why Is the Crowd Lonely?; XIX: Of Happiness and of Despair We have No Measure; Four: The Proper Study of Mankind; XX: Man as an Object of Science

O autorze

Ralph Ross