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Human Estrangement and the Failure of Political Imagination

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Extract

ItIs A well-known human tendency to continue applying remedies after the problem for which they are suitable has been solved. Concentration on a particular difficulty becomes habitual to such a degree that its disappearance may not be immediately realized. And new problems may take its place for some time without being noticed.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1959

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