10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help
From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and their literary works and shows how these works have inflicted great evil in the world-and still cause suffering.
From Machiavelli to Marx, Nietzsche to Hitler, this volume offers a provocative look at some of Western civilization's most infamous authors and their literary works and shows how these works have inflicted great evil in the world-and still cause suffering.
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Format: audiobook
ISBN:
9781400107919 (1400107911)
Publish date: September 8th 2008
Publisher: Tantor Media
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
History,
Humanities,
Language,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Books About Books,
Religion,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Psychology,
Theology
Mr. Wiker looks at Machiavelli, DeCartes, Hobbes, Marx, Darwin, Hitler, Nietsche, Mead, Sanger, and Kinsey and offers, in admittedly 20/20 hindsight, how this books negatively influenced thinking at the time they were published. Then he goes on to explain how these books are still influencing curre...
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