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Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen : a Study of Gurus Book

Every generation has its charismatic spiritual leaders, its gurus. Some are true saints while others conceal unspeakable depravity. Anthony Storr, Oxford professor of psychiatry, analyzes an interesting array of gurus and finds many commonalities among them--an isolated childhood, a need for certainty, a demand for obedience. He also elucidates aspects of this psychological profile in various intellectual, artistic, and political figures of history. This eye-opening book invokes a larger issue: in our search for guidance and truth, when and why do we cross the line from reasoned inquirer to unquestioning follower?Read More

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  • Product Description

    Examining why society becomes so enraptured with certain figures, an author surveys a wide variety of leaders both past and present attempting to explain how to distinguish between false authorities and those who are real. 35,000 first printing.

  • 0684828189
  • 9780684828183
  • Anthony Storr
  • 1 August 1996
  • The Free Press
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 272
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