Tower and the Abyss

This book shows the various evolutionary forces which have converged from different directions to effect human disintegration. It discusses the evidences of disintegration in all fields of contemporary experience, from social, political and economic processes to those in learning, art and poetry.

List of contents

1. The Human Scene: Individual, Community, Collective 2. The Split from Without: I Collectivization 3. The Split from Without: II Totalization and Terror 4. The Split from Within: I Second Consciousness and Fractionized Universe 5. The Split from Within: II New Sensibility, Psychoanalysis and Existentialist Experience: Sensibility, Psychoanalysis, Existentialist, Experience 6. Man Without Values: Man without Values 7. Possible Utopia: Possible Utopia

About the author

Erich Kahler

Product details

• Authors: Erich Kahler, Kahler Erich
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.1989
• EAN: 9780887387883
• ISBN: 978-0-88738-788-3
• No. of pages: 401
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; History: specific events & topics, Cultural Studies, Human, HISTORY / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History: specific events and topics