Cannibalism: Human aggression and cultural form (Harper torchbooks ; Jan 01, 1974] Sagan, Eli

Cannibalism: Human aggression and cultural form (Harper torchbooks ; TB 1830)

Sagan, Eli

Harper&Row

Looks at early societies in Africa and Polynesia, traces the development of chieftains and kings, and examines the nature of cruelty, tyranny, and justice

AT THE DAWN OF TYRANNY

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

KNOPF

The origins of individualism, political oppression and the state; a set of richly suggestive examples for rethinking the basic issues of social and political history.

History

Vintage

This text focuses on the world's first democracy, Athens, and mounts an argument that Athens and the modern American republic, although separated by more than 2000 years, share the same fundamental moral and psychological dilemmas. The book draws from Athenian and American experience.

Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America

Politics & Government

Basic Books (AZ)

Argues that ancient Athens and modern America share the same basic moral and psychological problems, and examines the connection between political paranoia and a society's capacity for democratic behavior

The Honey And The Hemlock: Democracy & Paranoia In Ancient Athens & Modern America

Basic Books

At the dawn of tyranny: the origins of individualism, political oppression and the state.

Faber and Faber

Examining Athenian democracy as an object lesson for democracy in general, and invoking Freud as his guide in this task, Eli Sagan explores the startling contradictions in the society of Athens: its delicious honey and its deadly hemlock.

The Honey and the Hemlock

Ancient Civilizations

Princeton Univ Pr

Why did the French Revolution, informed by Enlightenment principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity, end in the Great Reign of Terror? How could once moral citizens transform themselves into bloodthirsty "guillotine cannibals" bent on slaughtering their political opponents? For generations, these questions have mystified historians. Until now. In Citizens and Cannibals, noted scholar Eli Sagan argues that France's failed evolution into a modern state introduced to the world a previously unknown scourge with catastrophic consequences: ideological terror. France's passage into social and political modernity held for its citizens both great promise and great anxiety. Sagan analyzes this anxiety and demonstrates why the ensuing ideological terror is common to many societies in transition, including the transformations of Weimar to Nazi Germany, Czarist to Soviet Russia, and agrarian to Communist China. While the French Revolution may have introduced ideological terror to the world, Sagan makes it clear that Hitler, Stalin, and other dictators have perpetuated its existence time after time. In fact, Sagan concludes that the seeds of ideological terror remain present in all modernizing societies, at all times, and if given the proper conditions they will germinate in a very predictable way. As in his previous books, Sagan explores the past to illuminate the political strengths and moral shortcomings of all democratic societies, past, present, and future. With this brilliant new analysis of the French Revolution, he reminds us once again that the past can still teach us a great deal about our modern predicament―specifically, why all political progress must come at grave cost. Citizens and Cannibals is a rigorous work of history and profound psychological insight that offers readers the most comprehensive explanation of the great ambiguities and contradictions of the modern world.

Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror

Europe

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Lust to Annihilate: A Psychoanalytic Study of Violence in Ancient Greek Culture

Psychohistory Press

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Cannibalism: Human aggression and cultural form (Harper torchbooks ; TB 1830)

Cannibalism: Human aggression and cultural form (Harper torchbooks ; TB 1830)

AT THE DAWN OF TYRANNY

AT THE DAWN OF TYRANNY

Honey and the Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America

The Honey And The Hemlock: Democracy & Paranoia In Ancient Athens & Modern America

At the dawn of tyranny: the origins of individualism, political oppression and the state.

The Honey and the Hemlock

Citizens & Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror

The Lust to Annihilate: A Psychoanalytic Study of Violence in Ancient Greek Culture