Eli Sagan

Eli Sagan graduated with honors from Harvard University in 1948 and then devoted the next quarter century to a business career in New York City and the life of the mind. After retiring from business in 1974, he devoted his life to scholarship, eventually publishing the following books. Freud, Women, and Morality: The Psychology of Good and Evil (1988); The Honey and The Hemlock: Democracy and Paranoia in Ancient Athens and Modern America (1991); Cannibalism: Human Aggression and Cultural Form (1974, 1993); The Lust to Annihilate: A Psychoanalytic Study of Violence in Ancient Greek Society (1980, 1993); At the Dawn of Tyranny: The Origins of Individualism, Political Oppression, and the State (1985,1993); and Citizens and Cannibals: The French Revolution, the Struggle for Modernity, and the Origins of Ideological Terror (200)1. Currently, he is completing a volume on the origins of tolerance within Christianity. Despite his lack of advanced degrees, in recognition of erudition and scholarly publications, Sagan has been on the faculties of Brandeis, New England Conservatory, New School University, and UC-Berkeley. He lives in Englewood, NJ, without the benefit of email.