[DOWNLOAD] "Envy" by Helmut Schoeck " eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Envy
- Author : Helmut Schoeck
- Release Date : January 01, 1987
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 2412 KB
Description
This classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy—“a drive which lies at the core of man’s life as a social being.” Ranging widely over literature, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, Professor Schoeck— a distinguished sociologist and anthropologist—elucidates both the constructive and destructive consequences of envy in social life. Perhaps most important, he demonstrates that not only the impetus toward a totalitarian regime but also the egalitarian impulse in democratic societies are alike in being rooted in envy.