Power and Innocence: Search for the Sources of Violence - Couverture souple

May, Rollo

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 000624243X ISBN 13 : 9780006242437

Editeur : HarperCollins Distribution Services, 1976

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society.

Rollo May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that Dr. May sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil.

Dr. May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective.

Biographie de l'auteur

Rollo May (1909-1994) was an influential existential psychologist and the author of Love and Will, The Courage to Create, and The Discovery of Being.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: HarperCollins Distribution Services
• Date d'édition: 1976
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 000624243X
• ISBN 13: 9780006242437
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 283
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible