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| Title | : | Listen, Little Man! |
| Author | : | Wilhelm Reich |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 144 pages |
| Published | : | January 1st 1974 by Noonday/Farrar, Straus & Giroux (NYC) (first published 1946) |
| Categories | : | Philosophy. Psychology. Nonfiction. Politics. Classics. Writing. Essays |
Wilhelm Reich
Paperback | Pages: 144 pages Rating: 4.03 | 5247 Users | 378 Reviews
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Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted. Reich has us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our lives and for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature.
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| Original Title: | Rede an den kleinen mann |
| ISBN: | 0374504016 (ISBN13: 9780374504014) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n79-39823 |
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Ratings: 4.03 From 5247 Users | 378 ReviewsAssessment About Books Listen, Little Man!
Simply powerfulApart from a few worthwhile passages, the rest is a never-ending, repeating itself rant of a man who claims to be a "great" man and lists all the times the "petty"man had done him wrong in his career while at the same time he reassures the petty man that he cares for them and their future. I cannot understand the hype. The parts that can be explained to have a parallel to anti fascism speech are interesting and important but the rest is just a bad copy polemic of something Nietsche would write.
2 ** What a nightmare. He verbally attacks everybody and supposedly exposes how rotten the contemporary human being is. Uncomfortable and unnerving.
Unexpected!! Woow!!An Adam's Apple!! The exact word to describe this book. It's like some spiritual conversation from a scene of Quentin Tarantino directional movie.This book is naturally wacky to read.It shakes up a ordinary man who has an (hidden) inferiority complex. This is a very small book which I would strongly recommend everyone to read to know themselves truly and stand up courageously for themselves against odds.
You are free in only one respect: free from the self-criticism that might help you govern your own life.""Your slave-driver is yourself.""I'm afraid of you because your main aim in life is to escape - from yourself.""No, you never ask yourself whether your thinking is right or wrong. You ask yourself what your neighbor will say about it, or whether, if you do right, it will cost you money.""A great man doesn't forget. He doesn't plot revenge but TRIES TO UNDERSTAND WHY YOU BEHAVE SO MISERABLY.
People kept praising this book a little too much recently and so I thought it must be a great one to read, especially because I read the Kurdish translation since I figured it would help me get better at reading Kurdish books.I have to say that I wasn't impressed. I don't think I got a lot of benefit from this one except that it reinforced some ideas I previously had, which is not a bad thing to say about a book by the way. The author presented too many ideas for me to comprehend and I didn't
Listen! Great book by this often neglected thinker!
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