A collection of thoughts inspired by daily events, this six-month diary, begun in November 1974, contains Hoffer's reflections on history, current affairs, world conflicts, inflation, democracy, working, retirement, and growing old

Before the Sabbath

Hoffer, Eric.

Harpercollins

In this book Hoffer gives us a brilliant, provocative dissection of modern man under stress of emotion. Here is a mirror held up in which everyone must see himself, as he wishes to be and as he is - a creature moved by love, hate, fear, forever torn as the constant and unavoidable traffic between good and evil goes on. Eric Hoffer is not comfortable reading. Rather, he is a "harsh and potent mental tonic," to quote one critic, because he strips each of us of our favorite disguises and conceits. What he offers in return is increased self-awareness, "without which" - as he explains - "there can be neither sensitivity, self-cultivation, intellectual integrity, nor a genuine feeling for one's fellow men." The extraordinary perception and insight, the "wry epigram and icy aphorism," which made "The True Believer" so notable, are present also in "The Passionate State of Mind." It is exciting reading fare for those who can bear the burden of self-knowledge.

PASSIONATE STATE OF MIND, THE

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Harper Brothers

First Things, Last Things

Dust jacket notes:  "Ever since The True Believer, Eric Hoffer has been saying what he thinks without caring whether other people think he ought to think that way.  In this sustained attack on the errors of our ways as he sees them - a consistently developed argument in nine chapters - he challenges the current romantic reverence for nature, the tendency to capitulate to the violence of the young and the militant ethnic minorities, the downgrading of the common man, his needs and his achievements, and the corresponding tendency to belittle the character and accomplishments of our nation.  Mr. Hoffer's view of our present chaos as a consequence of rapid change is in tune with his view of the past, in which revolution appears as the by-product of change, rather than the other way around.  And he warns against the threat to freedom - the desire to master and manipulate other human beings - which he considers implicit in the elitist vision of the intellectuals.  These controversial ideas, and the conclusions Hoffer draws from them, are presented with the pungency that has made him one of the most widely read critics of our contemporary life."

First things, last things (A Cass Canfield book)

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Harper&Row

Who is the True Believer? According to Hoffer, he's a guilty hitchhiker who thumbs a ride on every cause from Christianity to communism. He's a fanatic, needing a Stalin (or a Christ--or [fill in the blank here] to worship and die for. He's the mortal enemy of things-as-they-are, and he insists on sacrificing himself for a dream impossible to obtain. He is today everywhere on the march. This book was required reading in freshman college courses in the 50's, and although not as well known now, it is truly a book for our times.

True Believer Thoughts on the Nature Of Mass Movements

Religion & Spirituality

Harper

Eric Hoffer―one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer―approaches the critical problems of our time with the common sense that leads to startling conclusions and recommendations for an optimistic future.

In Our Time

This collection of the major writings of American longshoreman-philosopher Eric Hoffer includes the complete text of "The True Believer" and important essays and aphorisms from all of his works

Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer

History

The late American longshoreman-philosopher, recently awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, recounts his extraordinary life and thoughts in this autobiographical memoir

Truth Imagined

Philosophy

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer - the first and most famous of his books - was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.

The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements (Perennial Classics)

Harper Perennial Modern Classics

A stevedore on the San Francisco docks in the 1940s, Eric Hoffer wrote philosophical treatises in his spare time while living in the railroad yards. The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences.Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.

The True Believer

Perenial Library

Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. Reflections on the Human Condition is a collection of poignant aphorisms taken from his writings.

Reflections on the Human Condition.

HarperCollins (paper)

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