Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes suffering on such a vast scale and whether the human drives for pleasure and aggression can ever be reconciled. This lively new translation with helpful explanatory notes captures Freud’s engaging tone for a twenty-first-century audience and includes essays by two of Freud’s most insightful and renowned interpreters, historian Carl E. Schorske and philosopher Richard Rorty.
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Freud: The Psycho-archeology of Civilizations by Carl E. Schorske72
Freud and Moral Reflection by Richard Rorty88
Sobre el autor
Carl E. Schorske (1915-2015) was an American historian whose influential writings, including Fin-de-siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture, were honored with Pulitzer and Mac Arthur awards.Richard Rorty (1931-2007) was an eminent American philosopher known for many seminal books, including Contingency, Irony, and Solidarity, Achieving Our Country, and Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature.