Unadjusted Man in the Age of Overadjustment: Where History and Literature Intersect

by Peter Viereck

Book Overview

The great critic Peter Viereck, in a volume that both reproduces an earlier effort and presents an entirely new work on the intersection of history and literature, offers a biting critique of the American desire for normalcy that leads to a culture of the surrender of personality. In contrast to this voluntary thought control process is the unadjusted person. Cast in the mold of great individualists from Thomas More to Friedrich Nietzsche, such a...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765808064
• ISBN13: 9780765808066
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 8.9"