Not available in hardcover for decades, this beautifully rendered anniversary edition will be a welcome addition to readers' shelves. ISBN : 9780141182360 Publisher : Penguin UK Imprint : Penguin Weight (g) : 0.113 Publication date : August 2002 Dimensions : 198mm X 129mm X 8mm Product. Louis Menand, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winningThe Metaphysical Club, contributor to The New Yorker, and professor of English at Harvard University, reflects on the importance of this work in intellectual thought and why it has become such a landmark book for the history of ideas. He speaks to issues of human creativity and fulfillment, the place of beauty in culture, and the effects of repression.
New York, NY Edition Notes Translation of: Das Unberhagen in der Kultur Bibliogr. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. 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 twentieth-century thought, Freud elucidates the contest between aggression, indeed the death drive, and its adversary eros. 'Written in the decade before Freud’s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work.
Print Civilization and its Discontents: Pocket HardbacksĬivilization and Its Discontents may be Sigmund Freud's best-known work.
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