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Civilization & Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of 20th-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive & its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity & fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, & the effects of repression. Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker & professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought & why it's become such a landmark book for the history of ideas.
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Civilization and its discontents, Sigmund Freud
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- Released
- 1994
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sigmund Freud
- Publisher
- Dover Publ.
- Released
- 1994
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0486282538
- ISBN13
- 9780486282534
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Religion & Spirituality, Psychological Topics, Religious Topics, Philosophical Topics, Religion, Sociology, Culture, Scientific Theories, Studying, Psychoanalysis, Atheism, Sigmund Freud, Philosophy of Culture
- First published
- 1930
- Original title
- Das Unbehagen in der Kultur
- Rating
- 3.8 out of 5
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- Civilization & Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer ultimate questions: What influences led to the creation of civilization? How did it come to be? What determines its course? In this seminal volume of 20th-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive & its adversary eros. He speaks to issues of human creativity & fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, & the effects of repression. Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker & professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought & why it's become such a landmark book for the history of ideas.