Eric Hoffer
Title | Eric Hoffer PDF eBook |
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Pages | 88 |
Release | 1970 |
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Eric Hoffer, an American Odyssey
Title | Eric Hoffer, an American Odyssey PDF eBook |
Author | Calvin Tomkins |
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Pages | 68 |
Release | 1968 |
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Erich Hoffer
Title | Erich Hoffer PDF eBook |
Author | Calvin Tomkins |
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Pages | 68 |
Release | 1968 |
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Eric Hoffer
Title | Eric Hoffer PDF eBook |
Author | Tom Bethell |
Publisher | Hoover Press |
Pages | 329 |
Release | 2013-09-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0817914161 |
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."
Eric Hoffer
Title | Eric Hoffer PDF eBook |
Author | Calvin Tomkins |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Hoffer, Eric |
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Enlarged from a New Yorker article to include photographs and some of Hoffer's philosophical aphorisms.
An Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer
Title | An Analysis of Eric Hoffer's The True Believer PDF eBook |
Author | Jonah S. Rubin |
Publisher | CRC Press |
Pages | 98 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351351699 |
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.
Singlejack Solidarity
Title | Singlejack Solidarity PDF eBook |
Author | Stan Weir |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 408 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 081664294X |
Written throughout Stan Weir's decades as a blue-collar worker and labour educator, 'Singlejack Solidarity' offers a rare look at modern life and social relations as seen from the factory, dockside and the shop floor.