The Utopian Flight from Unhappiness: Freud against Marx on Social Progress

Description: The Utopian Flight from Unhappiness: Freud against Marx on Social Progress Very Good - Text Unmarked - Binding and Cover Clean and Tight - Minor Wear to Dust Jacket - Dust Jacket in Mylar - Ready to Ship By -- Martin G. Kalin Published by -- Nelson-Hall, 1974, Chicago IL, xi 231 Pages, Dust Jacket, Hardcover, 8.75" X 5.75" X 1", 1 lb 3 oz., ISBN -- 0911012656 / 9780911012651 [DUST JACKET]"In this stimulating book, Dr. Kalin brilliantly explores two fundamentally different and conflicting approaches to the problem of human unhappiness. These may be characterized as the utopian (or optimistic) and antiutopian (or pessimistic). Marx has been selected as the spokesman for the utopian position, and Freud for the antiutopian. (...) [T]he depth and firmness of the systems of these thinkers provide incentive for further reflection on the problem of human unhappiness. The utopian analysis of unhappiness bases its hope for the future on two principles. The first states that man is pliable enough to transform his present unhappy condition to a happy one; that is, the race is not doomed by immutable nature to remain unhappy. The second principle affirms that a sufficient change in the physical and social environment can accomplish a corresponding alteration in the human condition. To put this another way, an improvement in man's surroundings can make him happy. (...) The antiutopians, however, reject the first principle and rejoin that a permanent core in man's nature condemns him to unhappiness. Although this view acknowledges that the human condition can be improved, it stops short of equating happiness with even the near elimination of unhappiness. Although Dr. Kalin adds his own considerable philosophical expertise to the debate, he does not attempt a final answer. With Marx and Freud, he concedes that no problem can be solved rationally until it is understood. [H]elping us understand the causes of unhappiness is the point of this uncommonly penetrating study." #readersofinstagram #bookcollecting #CoverArt #Bookstagram #DialecticsMaterialism #Happiness #instabooks #Antiquarian #Superego #Psychology #booksforsale #MartinGKalin #Communism #instaread #bibliophile #SigmundFreud #Bookworm #SocialProgress #CuttleboneBooks #booksale #Ego #Vintage #BooksBooksBooks #Id #DictatorshipOfTheProletariat #collectiblebooks #Books #KarlMarx #Utopian

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