Volume 21, Number 6 · April 18, 1974

Surrender of the Will

By Richard Sennett
Civilized Man's Eight Deadly Sins
by Konrad Lorenz, translated by Marjorie Kerr Wilson

Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 107 pp., $4.95

The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness
by Erich Fromm

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 521 pp., $10.95

The appearance of Konrad Lorenz's On Aggression in 1966 set off a noisy debate: to what degree are men biologically disposed to kill or to maim each other? The debate is a phony one; in it biology is used to camouflage an argument which really concerns something else.



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