Ambition : an essay on the burning desire to rise /: an essay on the burning desire to rise. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Uniform Title: Ehrgeiz.
• Further Information: Note: Eckart Goebel ; translated by James C. Wagner.
• Authors: Goebel, Eckart
• Other Names: Wagner, James C translator.
• Contents: IntroductionI. Semantics of AmbitionII. Eris - Agon - AmbitionIII. Ambition in Modernity1. A New Era of Ambition (Jacob Burckhardt)2. The Ambition of Equals (Alexis de Tocqueville)3. Critique of Success (Gustav Ichheiser)4. Critique of Contemplation (Karl Mannheim)5. The Ambitious Spoilsport (Roger Caillois)6. Hesiod's Return in the Achieving Society (David McClelland)7. Burning Ambition (Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler)The Ambition to Reject Ambition: An Afterword with a View to Montaigne Index.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 302.54; Ambition
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501383854; 9781501383861
• Related ISBNs: 9781501383847; 9781501383830
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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