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Ambition
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Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history.
Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition-that insatiable hunter in the mirror-and power
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
268
Release Date:
2022-06-30
Publication Date:
2022-06-30
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original:
English
ISBN10:
1501383841
ISBN13:
9781501383847
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Weight:
472 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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