Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence

May, Rollo

ISBN 10: 039331703X / ISBN 13: 9780393317039

Editore: W. W. Norton & Company, 1998

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Riassunto:

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.

L'autore: 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.

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Titolo: Power and Innocence: A Search for the ...
Casa editrice: W. W. Norton & Company
Data di pubblicazione: 1998
Legatura: paperback
Condizione: Very Good