Civilization and Its Discontents By Sigmund FreudCivilization and Its Discontents By Sigmund Freud
Civilization and Its Discontents By Sigmund Freud

Civilization and Its Discontents

$12.95

By Sigmund Freud
Translated by Ulrich Baer
With essays by Carl E. Schorske and Richard Rorty

“The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt.”

Civilization and Its Discontents is widely considered Freud’s most important and most brilliant work. In it Freud examines why today’s society causes suffering on such a vast scale and whether the human drives for pleasure and aggression can ever be reconciled. This lively new translation with helpful explanatory notes captures Freud’s engaging tone for a twenty-first-century audience and includes essays by two of Freud’s most insightful and renowned interpreters, historian Carl E. Schorske and philosopher Richard Rorty.

Paperback
119 pages
Warbler Press, 2022
Originally published 1930
5.5 by 8.5 inches
ISBN 9781957240589
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