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Rollo May
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Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence |
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English |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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288 |
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1998-03-17 |
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039331703X |
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W. W. Norton & Company |
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0.9 pounds |
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0.7 x 5.5 x 8.3 inches |
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Product Description
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.
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