Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
“Control the manner in which a man interprets his world, and you have gone a long way toward controlling his behavior”: First Edition of "of this classic account of the human tendency to follow orders" Obedience To Authority; Inscribed by Stanley Milgram to sociologist Paul Hollander
Obedience to Authority: An Experimental View.
MILGRAM, Stanley.
$6,000.00
Item Number: 116487
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974.
First edition of the author’s classic work. Octavo, original cloth, illustrated with diagrams and graphs. Association copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his friend, the sociologist Paul Hollander, “To Paul With warm regards to my brilliant and dear friend. Stanley.” Milgram has also drawn a picture of an angel below the inscription. The recipient, Paul Hollander was a fellow sociologist and close friend, whom he had co-authored an article on the Kitty Genovese case. With Hollander’s notes, near fine in a near fine dust jacket.
Between 1961 and 1964, Stanley Milgram carried out a series of experiments at Yale University in which human subjects were instructed to administer what they thought were progressively more painful electric shocks to another human being to determine to what extent people would obey orders even when they knew them to be painful and immoral. The experiments came under heavy criticism at the time but were ultimately vindicated by the scientific community. “Milgram’s experiments on obedience have made us more aware of the dangers of uncritically accepting authority,” wrote Peter Singer in the New York Times Book Review. Milgram's experiments on obedience to authority are considered among the most important psychological studies of the twentieth century. Basis for the motion picture The Experimenter, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Wynona Ryder.
