Title:	Democratic Culture and Moral Character A Study in Culture and Personality
Authors:	Braun, Jerome
Keywords:	A Study in Culture and Personality
Issue Date:	2013
Publisher:	Springer
Description:	Most books on psychoanalysis and politics are either mostly about psychoanalysis, with a little bit of politics. Or books about politics, employing a very stereotypical and one-dimensional view of psychoanalysis. Braun’s book is quite remarkable, and from one perspective is not really about psychoanalysis and politics at all. Rather, it is a book about the evolution of modern life by one who is deeply informed and thoughtful about politics, culture, and psychoanalysis. That is the spirit in which it is written, I believe, and that is the spirit in which it is best read. The range and breadth of Braun’s reading and understanding of the rise of the modern world, and the modern individual who goes with it, is impressive. More impressive still is his ability to pursue and convey a complex argument over a couple of 100 pages. If I were to compare it to any recent work, the most obvious would be Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism. Only Braun’s historical sweep is broader. Psychoanalysis and politics are not so much woven together as they are part of an intellectual background to a critique of contemporary western culture at a vulnerable point
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/20166
ISBN:	978-94-007-6754-6
Appears in Collections:	Gender

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