August 2020
Intermediate to advanced
249 pages
5h 15m
English
Robert Sears, whose agency collaborated with Lewin in Iowa, noted the following about Lewin’s passion for democracy: “The autocratic way he insisted on democracy was a little spectacular. There was nothing to criticize – but one couldn’t help noticing the fire and the emphasis (Marrow, 1969, p127).” Small wonder, given Lewin’s firsthand experience of WWI, of Nazism in Germany, and of anti-Semitism even before the rise of Hitler. Lewin was in a race against time to have advances in social science catch up with advances in technology in time to keep us from annihilating ourselves. “There is no hope for creating a better world without a deeper scientific insight into the function of leadership, of ...
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