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Philip Slater


Born
in Riverton, New Jersey, The United States
May 15, 1927

Died
June 20, 2013


Philip Slater was an author, actor, playwright, and sociologist. He taught sociology at Harvard, Brandeis, and the University of California at Santa Cruz. He obtained a doctorate from Harvard.

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The Pursuit of Loneliness: ...

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مدرسة فرانكفورت: نشأتها ومغ...

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3.50 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1977 — 9 editions
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Chrysalis Effect: The Metam...

4.11 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions
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Earthwalk

4.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1974 — 8 editions
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The Glory of Hera: Greek My...

3.63 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1971 — 12 editions
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How I Saved the World

4.17 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1985 — 4 editions
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Wealth Addiction

4.12 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1980 — 5 editions
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A Dream Deferred: America's...

3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1991 — 6 editions
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The wayward gate: Science a...

3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1977 — 2 editions
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Microcosm: Structural, Psyc...

4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions
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“Our economy is based on spending billions to persuade people that happiness is buying things, and then insisting that the only way to have a viable economy is to make things for people to buy so they’ll have jobs and get enough money to buy things.”
Philip Slater

“Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.”
Philip Elliot Slater, Earthwalk

“We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby admit their seductive appeal.”
Philip Slater, The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point