Meaning & void : inner experience and the incentives in people's lives / Eric Klinger.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Klinger, Eric, 1933-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Psychology).

Incentive (Psychology).

Alienation (Social psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (427 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Meaning and void

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1977.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In a wide-ranging theory of the way people function, the author shows how their inner lives depend upon and in turn influence their commitments to goals or incentives.

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; 1. MEANING, GOALS, AND ACTION; 2. INCENTIVES AND THOUGHTS; 3. INCENTIVES AND EMOTIONS; 4. THE UPS AND DOWNS OF VALUE; 5. CONSEQUENCES OF LOSING; 6. ALIENATION, FUTILITY, DISCONTENT; 7. TAMPERING WITH THE MESSAGE SYSTEM; 8. SELF-ANNIHILATION; 9. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS FOR THE SOCIAL SCIENCES; NOTES; REFERENCES; INDEXES

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and indexes.

ISBN:

0-8166-8158-9

0-8166-0856-3

OCLC:

182732720