ISBN:
9781501383847
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9781501383830
Language:
English
Pages:
260 Seiten
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Diagramme
Uniform Title:
Ehrgeiz
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Goebel, Eckart Ambition
DDC:
302.5/4
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"--
