Ambition : an essay on the burning desire to rise / Eckart Goebel ; translated by James C. Wagner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goebel, Eckart, author.

Contributor:

Wagner, James C., translator.

Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Standardized Title:

Ehrgeiz. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Ambition.

Physical Description:

260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 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 / Alfred Adler.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rev. C. P. Krauth Fund.

Related Work:

Translation of: Goebel, Eckart. Ehrgeiz.

Other Format:

Online version: Goebel, Eckart. Ambition

ISBN:

9781501383847

1501383841

9781501383830

1501383833

OCLC:

1257401920

Publisher Number:

99991219878