Word: kierkegaard
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barber has studied political psychology, but a character analysis far from the couch must be treated with a certain skepticism. His scheme obviously leaves a lot to be examined: Is exuberance, for instance, so easily distinguished from anxiety? Kierkegaard did not think so. Still, Barber's concept is fascinating, if not final. Since Barber's express purpose in writing his book is to encourage a hard look at men before they reach the White House, TIME asked him to estimate what kind of President George McGovern would make. Barber's analysis...
Coles has a philosophical bent too. Philosophers Sören Kierkegaard and Simone Weil appeal to him for their interest in "everydayness, the everyday movement of people's lives." He admires Ralph Ellison (Invisible Man) and William Faulkner?"the real psychologists." Most important to Coles, though, is the late James Agee, whose writing style he consciously imitated in the early 1960s and whose photograph looks down on Coles as he writes. Erikson says that Coles strongly identifies with the author of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, that early portrait of sharecroppers. Both writers, says Erikson, "are part of a tradition...