Books
December, 1971
Few books this year will be as closely read and as hotly disputed as Beyond Freedom and Dignity (Knopf), by Harvard's famed behavioral psychologist, B. F. Skinner. This iconoclastic attack on the idea of man as an autonomous being is a challenge to the thinking of all men who pride themselves on their ability to use intelligence and reason in the pursuit of knowledge. In Skinner's view, intelligence and reason are nothing more than the selective response of a unique organism to the stimulation o...
