Listen, Little Man!
William Steig, Wilhelm Reich, Theodore P. Wolfe
Readers rate it 3.4 (8 on Hardcover)
144 pages · Released Sep 3, 1974 · Noonday Press
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This is a philosophical essay illustrated by William Steig, based on Wilhelm Reich's manifesto addressed to ordinary people. Without a description or sample content, the exact themes and tone are difficult to assess. The metadata suggests mature, reflective content likely aimed at older teens or adults engaging with philosophy rather than children.
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"Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man... "Listen, Little Man! is a great physician's quiet talk to each one of us, the average human being, the Little Man. Written in 1946 in answer to the gossip and defamation that plagued his remarkable career, it tells how Reich watched, at first naively, then with amazement, and finally with horror, at what the Little Man does to himself; how he suffers and rebels; how he esteems his enemies and murders his friends; how, wherever he gains power as a "representative of the people," he misuses this power and makes it crueler than the power it has supplanted. Reich has us to look honestly at ourselves and to assume responsibility for our lives and for the great untapped potential that lies in the depth of human nature.
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ISBN 9780374504014 · Noonday Press