Human Aggression
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What compels human beings to wage war, commit acts of cruelty, and turn violence upon one another — even in the absence of immediate threat? In Human Aggression, the distinguished British psychiatrist Anthony Storr confronts one of the most unsettling paradoxes of the human condition, arguing that aggression is not a pathological aberration but a deeply rooted biological and psychological drive that shapes the very architecture of human society. Drawing on ethology, psychoanalysis, and clinical psychiatry, Storr presents a rigorous yet accessible account of why aggression manifests across cultures, classes, and centuries — and what, if anything, can be done to redirect its formidable energy. Storr writes with the rare authority of a clinician who is equally at home in the worlds of science and humanism, weaving together insights from Konrad Lorenz, Freud, and developmental psychology into a cohesive and deeply considered argument. Human Aggression transcends the purely academic to become a meditation on power, competition, dominance, and the darker currents that run beneath civilised life. Praised upon its first publication as essential reading for scientists, humanists, and the general reader alike, this landmark work leaves one with an urgent and provocative question: if aggression is inseparable from human nature, what does that mean for the future of our species?
Author: Anthony Storr
Format: Hardback
Published: 1968, Allen Lane The Penguin Press
Genre: Psychology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What compels human beings to wage war, commit acts of cruelty, and turn violence upon one another — even in the absence of immediate threat? In Human Aggression, the distinguished British psychiatrist Anthony Storr confronts one of the most unsettling paradoxes of the human condition, arguing that aggression is not a pathological aberration but a deeply rooted biological and psychological drive that shapes the very architecture of human society. Drawing on ethology, psychoanalysis, and clinical psychiatry, Storr presents a rigorous yet accessible account of why aggression manifests across cultures, classes, and centuries — and what, if anything, can be done to redirect its formidable energy. Storr writes with the rare authority of a clinician who is equally at home in the worlds of science and humanism, weaving together insights from Konrad Lorenz, Freud, and developmental psychology into a cohesive and deeply considered argument. Human Aggression transcends the purely academic to become a meditation on power, competition, dominance, and the darker currents that run beneath civilised life. Praised upon its first publication as essential reading for scientists, humanists, and the general reader alike, this landmark work leaves one with an urgent and provocative question: if aggression is inseparable from human nature, what does that mean for the future of our species?