The Human Drama

A triple purpose informs this work - analysis, criticism, and (to use an old-fashioned word) salvation. It is a powerful assault on conventional theory and scholarship; a radical deconstruction of the modern rationalist mode; and an anguished plea for the recognition of human limits. It is a work of the most serious caliber. Its scholarship is sweeping, aiming at a synthesis of learning unique in today's specialized (or even trivialized) research. Several separate strands are interwoven, biological-anthropological and psychological analysis, into his historical work. It is both utterly Freudian reductionist and metaphysical. The author combines these two contradictory strands of scholarship into a creative point of view, encompassing all of history, everywhere, for the purpose of judging today's ills...Some Fromm or Erikson could be compared to it: but earlier works, Spengler, et al., would have to be the measure...It is a unique book, both old-fashioned in its sweep and purpose (e.g., moral) and wholly contemporary in its scholarship method. This is, obviously, Robert Sinai's work...It is a powerful, passionate book...the thesis is as well put as it could be. And his thesis merits life, and for scholarship and reflective men his work commands attention. (Reader's Report)

"A triple purpose informs this work - analysis, criticism, and (to use an old-fashioned word) salvation. It is a powerful assault on conventional theory and scholarship; a radical deconstruction of the modern rationalist mode; and an anguished plea for the recognition of human limits.
It is a work of the most serious caliber. Its scholarship is sweeping, aiming at a synthesis of learning unique in today's specialized (or even trivialized) research. Several separate strands are interwoven, biological-anthropological and psychological analysis, into his historical work. It is both utterly Freudian reductionist and metaphysical. The author combines these two contradictory strands of scholarship into a creative point of view, encompassing all of history, everywhere, for the purpose of judging today's ills...Some Fromm or Erikson could be compared to it: but earlier works, Spengler, et al., would have to be the measure...It is a unique book, both old-fashioned in its sweep and purpose (e.g., moral) and wholly contemporary in its scholarship method.
This is, obviously, Robert Sinai's work...It is a powerful, passionate book...the thesis is as well put as it could be. And his thesis merits life, and for scholarship and reflective men his work commands attention." (Reader's Report)