The Tower and the Abyss: An Inquiry Into the Transformation of the Individual

ISBN-13: 9780887387883 / Angielski / Miękka / 1989 / 360 str.

Erich Kahler

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Erich Kahler