The Limits of Idealism: When Good Intentions Go Bad

by Melvyn L. Fein

Book Overview

If the truth be known, I am only a partially reformed idealist. In the secret depths of my soul, I still wish to make the world a better place and sometimes fantasize about heroically eradicating its faults. When I encounter its limitations, it is consequently with deep regret and continued surprise. How, I ask myself, is it possible that that which seems so fight can be a chimera? And why, I wonder, aren't people as courageous, smart, or nice as...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306462117
• ISBN13: 9780306462115
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 265 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.1"