Eli Sagan, Author . Rowman & Littlefield $35 (630p) ISBN 978-0-7425-0831-6
At times confusing, at times insightful, this exploration of the French Revolution relies heavily on Freudian concepts of psychoanalysis and Hegelian concepts of "historical stages" to explain how the Revolution went wrong. Historian Sagan (A
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Eli Sagan, Author Basic Books $19.95 (270p) ISBN 978-0-465-02570-1
To Freud's way of thinking, each person behaves morally because of his or her superego, one of the three major components of mind (the other two being ego and id). But the fatal flaw of his system, according to Sagan (At the Dawn of Tyranny), is...
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Eli Sagan, Author Basic Books $11 (0p) ISBN 978-0-465-02572-5
Refuting Freud's viewpoint of women as sexist, Sagan also contends that conscience, formed during the time a child is under the guardianship of a mother or some other caretaker, has primacy over the superego. ``This brilliant study is a sweeping...
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Eli Sagan, Author Basic Books $27 (429p) ISBN 978-0-465-03058-3
In its enslavement and occasional genocide of captured cities, ancient Athens ``matched any of the barbarisms of twentieth-century totalitarian states,'' writes Sagan. Athens, cradle of the concept and practice of citizenship, was a mature democracy
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Eli Sagon, Author, Eli Sagan, Author Vintage Books USA $13.95 (420p) ISBN 978-0-394-74670-8
Citing the early cultures of Buganda, Tahiti and Hawaii, Sagan asserts that social scientists have overlooked a stage in historical development that lies between tribal organization and the archaic kingdom or feudalism. This is ""a controversial,...
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