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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Limits of Idealism
    sub title: When Good Intentions Go Bad
  name:
    name part: Fein, Melvyn L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 1999
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 265 p. online resource.
  abstract: If the truth be known, I am only a partially reformed idealist. In the secret depths of my soul, I still wish to make the world a better place and sometimes fantasize about heroically eradicating its faults. When I encounter its limitations, it is consequently with deep regret and continued surprise. How, I ask myself, is it possible that that which seems so fight can be a chimera? And why, I wonder, aren't people as courageous, smart, or nice as I would like? The pain of realizing these things is sometimes so intense that I want to close my eyes and lose myself in the kinds of daydreams that comforted me as a youngster. One thing is clear, my need to come to grips with my idealism had its origin in a lifetime of naivet6. From the beginning, I wanted to be a "good" person. Often when life was most treacherous, I retreated into a comer from whence I escaped into reveries of moral glory. When I was very young, my faith was in religion. In Hebrew school, I took my lessons seriously and tried to apply them at home. By my teen years, this had been replaced by an allegiance to socialism. In the Brooklyn where I grew up, my teachers and relatives made this seem the natural course. When I reached my twenties, however, and was obliged to confront a series of personal deficiencies, psychotherapy shouldered its way to the fore.
  table of contents: Idealism on Trial -- In the Name of Morality -- Messianic Stickball -- Dreams or Nightmares -- Extreme I: Radical Feminism -- Extreme II: Radical Civil Rights -- Extreme III: Radical Medicalism -- Luminosity Blindness -- No Respect.
  note: by Melvyn L. Fein.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Business
  subject:
    topic: Management science
  subject:
    topic: Public health
  subject:
    topic: Education
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Education, general
  subject:
    topic: Business and Management, general
  subject:
    topic: Public Health
  classification: HM401-1281
  classification: 301
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Clinical Sociology: Research and Practice
  identifier: 9780585296012
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b102607
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204162253.0
    record identifier: 978-0-585-29601-2