The Ordeal of Change
by Eric Hoffer
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Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Nowhere is this more evident than in Hoffer's seminal work, The Ordeal of Change, essays on the duality and essentiality of change in man throughout history. (Resored to print by noted author Christopher Klim.)Tags
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The book examines the forces working to change the world, including discontented people in need of haven, intellectuals, talented misfits, idealists, and men of words who play upon mass emotions.
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Harper Perennial (P110)
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- Canonical title
- The Ordeal of Change
- Original publication date
- 1963
- Dedication
- To Lili and all the Osbornes
- First words
- It is my impression that no one really likes the new.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And no matter what some anthropologists, sociologists, and geneticists may tell us, we shall go on believing that man, unlike other forms of life, is not a captive of his past -- of his heredity and his habits -- but is possessed of infinite plasticity, and his potentialities for good and for evil are never wholly exhausted.
- Blurbers
- Dolbier, Maurice; Baritz, Loren
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- Genres
- Sociology, Nonfiction, Philosophy, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 301.24 — Society, government, & culture Social sciences, sociology & anthropology Sociology and anthropology Formerly: Culture and cultural processes Cultural Anthropology
- LCC
- HX36 .H6 — Social sciences Socialism. Communism. Anarchism Socialism. Communism. Anarchism
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- (3.98)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 4
- ASINs
- 16
