Freedom and Destiny - Softcover

May, Rollo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440530121 ISBN 13: 9780440530121

Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell, 1981

Synopsis

Personal freedom is a unique human quality. Rollo May's intriguing thesis argues that individual freedom is the only way in which man can discover his destiny--although the two are always in conflict.

About this title

About the Author

Rollo May (1909-1994) taught at Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and was Regents' Professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz. An influential psychologist, he was the best-selling author of Love and Will, as well as the author of The Courage to Create, Man's Search for Himself, The Meaning of Anxiety, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma.

Review

Especially instructive, even stunning, is Dr. May's willingness to respect mystery. . . .There is, too, at work throughout the book a disciplined yet relaxed clinical mind, inclined to celebrate . . . what Flannery O'Connor called 'mystery and manners,' and to do so in a tactful, meditative manner. -- Robert Coles, America

May is an existential analyst who deservedly enjoys a reputation among both general and critical readers as an accessible and insightful social and psychological theorist. . . . Freedom's characteristics, fruits, and problems; destiny's reality; death; and therapy's place in the confrontation between freedom and destiny are examined. . . . Poets, social critics, artists, and other thinkers are invoked appropriately to support May's theory of freedom and destiny's interdependence. -- Library Journal

Edition details

• Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell
• Publication date: 1981
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0440530121
• ISBN 13: 9780440530121
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275