Eric Hoffer Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Eric Hoffer è stato uno scrittore sociale e filosofo americano la cui opera approfondisce la natura dei movimenti di massa e del fanatismo. La sua scrittura è profondamente plasmata dalle sue esperienze di vita, inclusi periodi di cecità, migrazione e lavoro come scaricatore di porto. La filosofia di Hoffer sottolinea l'importanza del pensiero individuale e dello scetticismo verso le credenze collettive. Possedeva una prospettiva intransigente sulla natura umana e sui fenomeni sociali, che lo rese una figura distintiva nel discorso intellettuale americano.
A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.
The Ordeal of Change
- 136pagine
- 5 ore di lettura
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. (Restored to print by noted author Christopher Klim.)
This book was originally published by Harper & Row, Publishers, in 1951.-- Title page verso.