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title = "Authority",
author = "Pauline Cheong",
note = "Funding Information: Authority, according to the au thor, is the first of four related essays on the emotional bonds of modern society. The stimulus for the book was the Sigmund Freud memorial lecture at the University of London in 1977 which Richard Sennett enlarged upon under a grant from the National Science Foundation. The book is fun to read. It is a mixture of psychology, philosophy, political theory, psychoanalysis, and history. This book, like the many others by the same author, is written deftly and assuredly. The text yields an uncommon amount of quotable material, such as {"}Solitude is an emotion of absence; authority is a bond between people who are unequal; fraternity is a bond built between people who are similar; ritual is a bond built between people who are unified, whether as equals or not.{"} The book contains some fasci nating case histories of bizarre behavior patterns of individuals and groups, most of which focus on attitudes toward authority and the various ways in which resentments and fears can be disguised. The impression is given that life is a ceaseless struggle and seems to yield limited satisfactions and pleasures; the book is about the half-empty glass.",
year = "2012",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9780203084861",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "9780203084861",
pages = "72--87",
booktitle = "Digital Religion",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis",
}