On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Frances Bolton (PHI) wrote:
>
> >Who is this guy Sciabarra?
>
> Big fan of Rand & the Austrians too; thinks they share the dialectical
> method with Marx. Did his poli sci diss at NYU under Bertell Ollman.
>
> By the way, paging through his Rand book I learned that the dreaded term
> "self-esteem" was coined and popularized by Rand's protege/lover Nathaniel
> Branden.
>
William James coined the term "self-esteem" in his Principles of Psychology in 1890. I guess we shouldn't trust a poly sci person on the origins of psychobabble ...
Miles Jackson cqmv at odin.cc.pdx.edu