Author

Publication

1974 - Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

76,500 words, Guess

Page Count

306 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number74005306
  • LibraryThing97622
  • Goodreads1378136

Classifications

  • DDC591.5
  • LCCQL758.5 .L6713 1974

Description

On Aggression (German: Das sogenannte Böse. Zur Naturgeschichte der Aggression, "So-called Evil: on the natural history of aggression") is a 1963 book by the ethologist Konrad Lorenz; it was translated into English in 1966.[1] As he writes in the prologue, "the subject of this book is aggression, that is to say the fighting instinct in beast and man which is directed against members of the same species." (Page 3) The book was reviewed many times, both positively and negatively, by biologists, anthropologists, psychoanalysts and others. Much criticism was directed at Lorenz's extension of his findings on non-human animals to humans.

First Sentence

My childhood dream of flying is realized: I am floating weightlessly in an invisible medium, gliding without effort over sunlit fields.

Excerpt

My childhood dream of flying is realized: I am floating weightlessly in an invisible medium, gliding without effort over sunlit fields.

Description

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."Translation of Das sogenannte Böse. Bibliography: p. 301-306.

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Series Statement

  • A Harvest book, HB 291

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  • On aggression.Harcourt Brace Jovanovich1974-01-01
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