Passion and Social Constraint

by Ralph Ross

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781351500678
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/08/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	384
File size:	614 KB

About the Author

Ralph Ross

Table of Contents

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