TY  - BOOK
AU  - May,Rollo
TI  - Power and innocence: a search for the sources of violence 
SN  - 0393010651
U1  - 301.633 22
PY  - 1972///
CY  - New York
PB  - W.W. Norton, 
KW  - Violence
KW  - Aggressiveness
KW  - Social history
N1  - Contents;

Part I
1. Madness and powerlessness 
Powerless corrupts 
Madness and society 
Powerless and drugs 
etc.

2. Innocence and the end of an era 
The greening and the parching of America
Other forms of innocence 

3. Language: The first casualty 
The distrust of words 
Obscenity and violence 
Words and symbols 
etc.

Part II
4. Black and impotent: The life of Mercedes 
The missing anger 
The rites of rebirth 
Violence as life-destroying and life-giving 

5. The meaning of power 
Defining power 
Power and the intellectuals 

6. The power to be 
Origins of power in childhood 
The life of Oliver
Self-affirmation 
etc.

7. Aggression
The meaning of aggression 
Varieties of aggression 
The psychology of aggression 
etc.

8. Ecstasy and violence 
Violence in literature 
Ecstasy in war 
The search for recognition 

9. The anatomy of violence 
The psychoneurological aspects of violence 
Varieties of violence 
Destructive violence 
etc.

Part III
10. Innocence 
The tragic day at Kent state 
The guardsmen 
Billy Budd's tragic flaw 
etc.

11. The humanity of rebel 
Civilization needs the rebel 
Rebel and society: A dialectic 
The artist as rebel 
etc.

12. Toward new community 
Farewell to innocence 
"If I could have found my tongue"
Love and power 
Toward a new ethic 


; Index : p. 275-283
ER  -