“Like Rousseau, Hegel appreciated quite early on that in modern commercial societies, individuals' desires and needs were generated by the desires and needs of others. Implanted by advertising, dictated by fashion, and determined by style, individual desire was always socially… — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
“No one could work harder to be happy," Tocqueville observes of Americans, marveling at the ceaseless, restless energy they expand in search of a… — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
“Like Rousseau, Hegel appreciated quite early on that in modern commercial societies, individuals' desires and needs were generated by the desires and needs of… — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
“What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?” — Darrin M. McMahon Copy Share Image
