No one had heard of Eric Hoffer until he published The True Believer (1951), a set of reflections about mass movements and those attracted to them. He was also known as the Longshoreman Philosopher.
Eric Hoffer was a former migrant farm worker who achieved praise and fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a writer and philosopher. Hoffer’s first of many books, “The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature ...
WASHINGTON — Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) meant that intellectuals in his day tended not to be temperate. In our day, this defect — moral overheating — has been democratized: Anyone can have it. Now, ...
Someone slapped that Eric Hoffer line on the side of a Brooklyn trash can, just under “Don’t litter” and above “Put litter in its place.” Hoffer was the longshoreman with a sideline in philosophy who ...
Eric Hoffer got a bead on the various players involved in the Kenosha case 70 years before it came to trial. “There is in us a tendency to locate the shaping forces of our existence outside of ...
Eric Hoffer was a former migrant farm worker who achieved praise and fame in the 1950s and 1960s as a writer and philosopher. Hoffer’s first of many books,“The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of ...
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