
The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
John Murray Cuddihy
The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity
John Murray Cuddihy
#2580 of 3,809 books · #156 in General
Shortlisted for the National Book Award for Nonfiction (1975).
Suggests that the analytical ideologies developed by Freud, Marx, and Levi-Strauss were direct rebellions against the culture and demands of a Gentile-dominated Europe.
- Publisher
- Beacon Press (MA)
- ISBN-13
- 9780807036099
- Genre
- Topics
- Jewish assimilation and modernityIntellectual historySociology of Freud, Marx, and Lévi-Strauss
Awards
- National Book Award for NonfictionShortlistedMajor(1975)
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