Past Impersonal
Subtitle: Group Process In Human History
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Published: August 30, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780875803456
Subjects: World history; Sociology; Psychology; Social Science; Group Psychology; History; Anthropology - General; Social groups
Description: "In this groundbreaking study, renowned historian Rudolph Binion develops a whole new understanding of human history. Exploring the collective dimension of human behavior in various historic contexts, he argues that people participate in purposeful group actions while pursuing only their own individual ends as far as they know. The basic moving force in history thus emerges as neither individual motives nor abstract tendencies, such as modernization or globalization, but as group process operating in concealment."--Jacket.