Passion and Social Constraint

Ralph Ross (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

384 Seiten

2006
AldineTransaction (Verlag)
9780202308975 (ISBN)

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In intellectual and academic circles, Ernest van den Haag is respected for his brilliant mind, his outspoken and often highly controversial assertions, and a very unacademic, sharp, biting style.Passion and Social Constraint, before its adaptation into a book for the general reader, was part of an enormous textbook, which Dr. van den Haag wrote with Professor Ralph Ross called The Fabric of Society. It received an (unprecedented) rave review in the New Yorker: "àthis book is everything a text book should not be--cynical, witty, up-to-date, and shamelessly opinionatedà Altogether a rare treat." It attracted the attention of the experts in psychology and sociology and the devotion of students and will now have enormous appeal to the layman who wants insight into who he is: sexually, psychologically, and individually.In Passion and Social Constraint, Ernest van den Haag is deeply concerned with the necessity and difficulty of being an individual in a society which tends more and more to standardize every facet of life. Be deals with anxiety; sex, and the problem of-who is normal; the status of women; the authority of parents; the family as an industry in present-day America conflict and power, and who gets what; the "furnished souls" of popular culture; arid why it is that science cannot give us a measure for happiness or for despair. Van den Haag' s style will delight you (some of his phrases are destined for Bartlett), though his judgments will, sometimes stir you to anger.

Ernest van den Haag taught at New York University and the New School for Social Research, and the New York Law School, he was also a practicing psychoanalyst. He was born in The Hague and was educated In France, Germany, Italy, Iowa, and New York. He was an associate of the National Review for forty-five years. Ralph Ross, his collaborator on the original The Fabric of Society, was professor of philosophy and chairman of the Humanities Program at the University of Minnesota.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.9.2006
Verlagsort	Somerset
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
ISBN-13	9780202308975 / 9780202308975
Zustand	Neuware