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    Ambition : an essay on the burning desire to rise (2022)
    New York : Bloomsbury Academic
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    ISBN: 9781501383847 , 9781501383830
    Language: English
    Pages: 260 Seiten , Diagramme
    Uniform Title: Ehrgeiz
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Goebel, Eckart Ambition
    DDC: 302.5/4
    RVK:
    MR 6100
    Keywords: Ambition
    Abstract: "A stunning exploration of ambition that brings together literary, philosophical, psychological, and sociological perspectives on this most human of passions. Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, from authors and thinkers that range from Hesiod to Kafka and from Shakespeare to Freud, and from a history that moves from ancient Greece and Rome via Italian Renaissance to modernity, Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition-an insatiable hunter in the mirror-and power"--
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    Ambition : An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise (2022)
    New York : Bloomsbury Academic & Professional
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    ISBN: 9781501383861
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (273 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 302.54
    Keywords: Ambition ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The Semantics of Ambition -- 2 Eris-Agon-Ambition -- 3 Ambition in Modernity -- 1 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 -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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