| Power and Innocence: A Search for the Sources of Violence Contributor(s): May, Rollo (Author) |
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ISBN: 039331703X ISBN-13: 9780393317039 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1998 Annotation: Stressing the positive, creative aspects of power and innocence, Rollo May offers a way of thinking about the problems of contemporary society. He discusses five levels of power's potential in each individual, what each is, how it works, and more. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Psychology | Social Psychology |
| Dewey: 301.633 |
| LCCN: 72005432 |
| Lexile Measure: 1190 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.4" W x 8.5" (0.75 lbs) 284 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Rollo May defines power as the ability to cause or prevent change; innocence, on the other hand, is the conscious divesting of one's power to make it seem a virtuea form of powerlessness that Dr. May sees as particularly American in nature. From these basic concepts he suggests a new ethic that sees power as the basis for both human goodness and evil. Dr. May discusses five levels of power's potential in each of us: the infant's power to be; self-affirmation, the ability to survive with self-esteem; self-assertion, which develops when self-affirmation is blocked; aggression, a reaction to thwarted assertion; and, finally, violence, when reason and persuasion are ineffective. |
Contributor Bio(s): May, Rollo: - Rollo May (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the best-selling author of Love and Will, as well as the author of The Courage to Create, Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma. |