The Wish to Be Free - Fred Weinstein & Gerald M. Platt

Title: The Wish to Be Free: Society, Psyche, and Value Change
Author: Fred Weinstein & Gerald M. Platt
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardcover with dust jacket
Edition: 1969 edition
ISBN: 0520013980
Condition: Second-hand. Good. The dust jacket shows rubbing, surface marks, toning and soiling, with edge wear, creasing and small chips around the spine ends and corners. The boards and binding appear sound from the photographs, and the interior page shown is intact. Please see photos for the exact copy available.

An interdisciplinary study of revolution and social change, examining political transformation through historical, psychoanalytic and sociological perspectives. Fred Weinstein and Gerald M. Platt connect Enlightenment thinkers such as Rousseau with later figures including Freud and Kafka, exploring how changing family structures, authority and personal psychology relate to revolutionary movements.

Published by the University of California Press in 1969, the book brings together political theory, sociology, psychology and intellectual history in a study of freedom, authority and value change in Western society.