Civilization and Its Discontents
Contributors: Louis Menand (Introduction)
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: January 30, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780393059953
First sentence: Sigmund Freud's Civilization and Its Discontents is in a class with Plato's Republic, Milton's Paradise Lost, Marx's Capital, and Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit: the grounds have entirely eroded for whatever authority it once enjoyed as an ultimate account of the way things are, but we can no longer understand the way things are without taking it into account.