{"product_id":"ambition-eckart-goebel-9781501383847","title":"Ambition: An Essay on the Burning Desire to Rise","description":"We describe people who are \"consumed\" or \"devoured\" by ambition as if by a predator or an out-of-control inferno.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Thinkers since deepest antiquity have raised these questions, approaching the subject of ambition with ambivalence and often trepidation-as when the ancient Greek poet Hesiod proposed a differentiation between the good and the bad goddess Eris. Indeed, ambition as a longing for immortal fame seems to be one of the unique hallmarks of the human species. While philosophy has touched only occasionally on the problem of burning ambition, sociology, psychoanalysis, and world literature have provided rich and more revealing descriptions and examples of its shaping role in human history.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Drawing on a long and varied tradition of writing on this topic, ranging from the works of Homer through Shakespeare, Freud, and Kafka and from the history of ancient Greece and Rome to the Italian Renaissance and up to the present day (to modernity and the current neoliberal era), Eckart Goebel explores our driving passion for recognition-that insatiable hunter in the mirror-and power\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eckart Goebel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501383841\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501383847\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.01lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d","brand":"Eckart Goebel","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073717104895,"sku":"9781501383847","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_140ed304-f05f-425f-88b7-c26ff1f67d77.jpg?v=1685449485","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/ambition-eckart-goebel-9781501383847","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}