Helmut Schoeck: Envy: A Theory of Social Behaviour
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Author: Helmut Schoeck
Number of Pages: 464 pages
Published Date: 01 Dec 1987
Publisher: Liberty Fund Inc
Publication Country: Indianapolis, IN, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780865970649
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Envy was first published in German in 1966, then in an English translation in 1970. This classic study is one of the few books to explore extensively the many facets of envy -- a drive which lies at the core of man's life as a social being. Ranging widely over literature, philosophy, psychology, and the social sciences, Professor Schoeck -- a distinguished sociologist and anthropologist -- elucidates both the constructive and destructive consequences of envy in social life. Perhaps most importantly he demonstrates that not only the impetus toward a totalitarian regime but also the egalitarian impulse in democratic societies are alike in being rooted in envy.