Summary
Bertrand Russell: Power
New Social Analysis
The key to human nature that Max found in wealth and Freud in sex, Bertrand Russell discovered in power. Power, he claims, is man's ultimate goal, and represents, in many of its forms, the single most important element in the development of any society. Writing from the end of the thirties of the last century when Europe was torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell undertook the endeavor to discover a "new science" to clarify the traumatic events of that era and to explain those that would follow them.
In this effort was born the book entitled POWER, an extraordinary work that Russell considered one of the most important in his long career. Opposing the totalitarian desire for domination, Russell shows us how political enlightenment and man's understanding of books represents a passionate call for the independence of the mind and a celebration of the instinctive joy of man's life.
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