Power [rare books]

The key to human nature that Marx found in wealth and Freud in sea. Bertrand Russell finds in power Power, he argues, is man's ultimate goal, and is, in its many guises, the single must important element in the development of any society, Written in the late 1930s when: Europe was being torn apart by extremist ideologies and the world was on the brink of war, Russell set out to found a new science one which would make sense of the traumatic events of the day and offer an explanation for those that would follow

The result was Power, a remarkable book which Russell regarded as one of the most important of his long career. Countering the totalitarian desire to dominate. Russell shows how political enlightenment and human understanding can lead to peace-his book is a passionate call for independence