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Author : Eric Hoffer
Release : 1980
Genre : Psychology
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Book Rating : 026/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The True Believer by : Eric Hoffer
Download or read book The True Believer written by Eric Hoffer. This book was released on 1980. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonah S. Rubin
Release : 2017-07-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 489/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis An Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer by : Jonah S. Rubin
Download or read book An Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer written by Jonah S. Rubin. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eric Hoffer’s The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements is one of the most widely read works of social psychology written in the 20th-century. It exemplifies the powers of creative thinking and critical analysis at their best, providing an insight into two crucial elements of critical thinking. Hoffer is likely to go down in history as one of America’s great creative thinkers – a writer not bound by standard frameworks of thinking or academic conventions, willing to beat his own path in framing the best possible answers to the questions he investigated. An impoverished, largely unschooled manual laborer who had survived the worst effects of the Great Depression in the United States, Hoffer was a passionate autodidact whose philosophical and psychological education came from omnivorous reading. Working without the help of any mentors, he forged the fearsomely creative and individual approach to problems demonstrated in The True Believer. The book, which earned him his reputation, examines the different phenomena of fanaticism – religious or political – and applies Hoffer’s analytical skills to reveal that, deep down, all ‘true believers’ display the same needs and tendencies, whatever their final choice of belief. Incisive and persuasive, it remains a classic.
Author : Eric Hoffer
Release : 2011-05-10
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 355/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The True Believer by : Eric Hoffer
Download or read book The True Believer written by Eric Hoffer. This book was released on 2011-05-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Its theme is political fanaticism, with which it deals severely and brilliantly.” —New Yorker The famous bestseller with “concise insight into what drives the mind of the fanatic and the dynamics of a mass movement” (Wall St. Journal) by the legendary San Francisco longshoreman. 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. Called a “brilliant and original inquiry” and “a genuine contribution to our social thought” by Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., this landmark in the field of social psychology is completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today as it delivers a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.
Author : Tom Bethell
Release : 2013-09-01
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 161/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Eric Hoffer by : Tom Bethell
Download or read book Eric Hoffer written by Tom Bethell. This book was released on 2013-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawn from Eric Hoffer's private papers as well as interviews with those who knew him, this detailed biography paints a picture of a truly original American thinker and writer. Author Tom Bethell interviewed Hoffer in the years just before his death, and his meticulous accounts of those meetings offer new insights into the man known as the "Longshoreman Philosopher."
Author : Eric Hoffer
Release : 1973
Genre : Reference
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Book Synopsis Reflections on the Human Condition by : Eric Hoffer
Download or read book Reflections on the Human Condition written by Eric Hoffer. This book was released on 1973. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of aphorisms and philosophical comment represents Eric Hoffer at his best. It offers stunning insights that strike home with startling frequency, often most uncomfortably; it has a fine unity, a well-defined theme. That some of the statements invite argument and questioning is inevitable and stimulating. Here is a book of the "wry epigram and the icy aphorism" which made his earlier books so appealing and gained for him a wide audience.--Publisher description.
