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The True Believer - Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Hardcover)
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The True Believer - Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Hardcover)
Series: The Macat Library
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Eric Hoffer's The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass
Movements is one of the most widely read works of social psychology
written in the 20th-century. It exemplifies the powers of creative
thinking and critical analysis at their best, providing an insight
into two crucial elements of critical thinking. Hoffer is likely to
go down in history as one of America's great creative thinkers - a
writer not bound by standard frameworks of thinking or academic
conventions, willing to beat his own path in framing the best
possible answers to the questions he investigated. An impoverished,
largely unschooled manual laborer who had survived the worst
effects of the Great Depression in the United States, Hoffer was a
passionate autodidact whose philosophical and psychological
education came from omnivorous reading. Working without the help of
any mentors, he forged the fearsomely creative and individual
approach to problems demonstrated in The True Believer. The book,
which earned him his reputation, examines the different phenomena
of fanaticism - religious or political - and applies Hoffer's
analytical skills to reveal that, deep down, all 'true believers'
display the same needs and tendencies, whatever their final choice
of belief. Incisive and persuasive, it remains a classic.
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