Download or read book The Name of Action written by John Fraser and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1984-12-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Fraser's critical essays explore conflicting attitudes towards self-affirmation and social order. Important concerns that touch these essays are ideas of energy, power, and personal plenitude, and the way in which idealism and heroic intensity can sometimes lead to overstrain and collapse.