Russell Jacoby: 4 books
Picture Imperfect
Utopian Thought for an Anti-Utopian Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2005
"The choice we have is not between reasonable proposals and an unreasonable utopianism. Utopian thinking does not undermine or discount real reforms. Indeed, it is almost the opposite: practical reforms depend on utopian dreaming."--Russell Jacoby, Picture Imperfect
Utopianism suffers...
Social Amnesia
A Critique of Contemporary Psychology
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Russell Jacoby defines social amnesia as society's repression of remembrance - society's own past. In this book, Jacoby excavates the critical and historical concepts that have fallen prey to the dynamic of a society that strips them both of their historical and critical content. Social Amnesia is...
Bloodlust
On the Roots of Violence from Cain and Abel to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2011
THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND ACROSS CULTURES, the most common form of violence is that between family members and neighbors or kindred communities—in civil wars writ large and small. From assault to genocide, from assassination to massacre, violence usually emerges from inside the fold. You have more...
Die Verdrängung der Psychoanalyse
oder Der Triumph des Konformismus
Language: German
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Russell Jacobys Darstellung ist eine Anwendung der Psychoanalyse auf ihre eigene Geschichte, auf die Geschichte der Verdrängung gesellschaftskritischer Absichten Freuds selbst bei seinen politisch bewußten Anhängern. Im Mittelpunkt dieser Verdrängungsgeschichte stehen Otto Fenichel und sein "Kreis"...