The Flight from Woman
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #010402
Full black cloth. 310 pp. Interior lightly age toned. Dust jacket is sunned and creased to spine, creased and bumped to extremities, damp stained to spine heel. Dr. Stern's new book is a study of the polarity of the sexes, as reflected in the conflict between two modes of knowledge -- scientific or rational, as contrasted with intuitive or poetic -- with which human beings are endowed. In exploring this rich theme, he undertakes psychological portraits of six representative figures whose though and work have influenced modern man: Descartes, Goethe, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Tolstoy, and Sartre. He also includes a portrait of Ibsen's heroine, Hedda Gabler, as the prototype of phallic women in our time.
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