About this title: Eric Hoffer--one of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believer--lived for years as a Depression Era migratory worker. Self-taught, his appetite for knowledge--history, science, mankind--formed the basis of his insight to human nature. The Temper of Our Time examines the influence of the juvenile mentality, the rise of automation, the black revolution, the regression of the back-to-nature movement, the intellectual vs. learning, and other relevent issues.
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Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Clean cover with light wear. Some yellow highlighting and marks in the text. 138p., 22 cm. read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Perennial Library, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Good. No Jacket. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Scuffing to wraps causing some loss of color. Underlining in pencil to a few pages. Solid copy. read more
Edition: 1st Paperback Edition
Binding: Paper
Publisher: Perennial Library, New York
Date Published: 1969
Description: Very Good+ in Softcover. No Dustjacket. 4 x 7" A solid copy; ----------SATISFACTION GUARANTEED---------FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE------ read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Harper & Row
Date Published: 1967
ISBN-13:9780060329020ISBN:0060329025
Description: Very Good. 1967 HB. PGS CRISP & CLEAN, BINDING TIGHT. DJ HAS A FEW MINOR TEARS AT EDGES, SLIGHT RUB WEAR. OUR GUARANTEED BOOKS ARE CAREFULLY CLEANED AND WRAPPED. WE SHIP DAILY. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Perennial Library
Date Published: 1967
Description: Good. Clean and tight pages. Shows minimal shelf wear. Slight crease on front cover. Rub wear on covers. Slight creasing on back cover. read more
Description: Good. B000BIH7JI Withdrawn from a library and has the usual stamps, stickers, etc. may or may not have the original dust jacket, read more
"Eric Hoffer is a noticer. This book represents his attempt to discern the "temper of our time." The ages have each been characterized by some overarching sentiment or attribute. What is the attribute for our age?
The book was published around 1966, although this edition is a 2008 reprint with a number of copy errors in it and no indication of the original publication date that I could find. The date of 1966 was found at the end of the preface.
Over three decades later, times have changed. It is interesting to look back and see how much of Mr. Hoffer's ideas are still relevant.
Hoffer claimed that his was the age of the "intellectual." By intellectual, he meant anyone who identifies with a certain elite class that has, among its various characteristics, a rather cynical and condescending disposition toward the common mass of mankind. He describes much of what inevitably results from such thinking.
Over all, an excellent read. This is a thinking book and requires a lot of attention. I find that ideas need to be sorted out and meshed with other ideas from other sources."
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