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PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.

ISBN-100393304515

ISBN-139780393304510

eBay Product ID (ePID)78677949

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Book TitleCivilization and Its Discontents

Number of Pages192 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2010

TopicCivilization, Movements / Psychoanalysis, Sociology / General, Political, Social Psychology

GenrePhilosophy, Social Science, Psychology, History

AuthorPeter Gay, Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Christopher Hitchens

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.5 in

Item Weight5.6 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2010-011485

Dewey Edition19

Dewey Decimal131

SynopsisFreud's seminal volume of twentieth-century cultural thought grounded in psychoanalytic theory, now with a new introduction by Christopher Hitchens., Written in the decade before Freud s death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines civilization s trajectory? Freud s theories on the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. Of the various English translations of Freud s major works to appear in his lifetime, only Norton s Standard Edition, under the general editorship of James Strachey, was authorized by Freud himself. This new edition includes both an introduction by the renowned cultural critic and writer Christopher Hitchens as well as Peter Gay s classic biographical note on Freud.", Written in the decade before Freud's death, Civilization and Its Discontents may be his most famous and most brilliant work. It has been praised, dissected, lambasted, interpreted, and reinterpreted. Originally published in 1930, it seeks to answer several questions fundamental to human society and its organization: What influences led to the creation of civilization? Why and how did it come to be? What determines civilization's trajectory? Freud's theories on the effect of the knowledge of death on human existence and the birth of art are central to his work. Of the various English translations of Freud's major works to appear in his lifetime, only Norton's Standard Edition, under the general editorship of James Strachey, was authorized by Freud himself. This new edition includes both an introduction by the renowned cultural critic and writer Christopher Hitchens as well as Peter Gay's classic biographical note on Freud.

LC Classification NumberBF173.F682 2010