The Tower and the Abyss

by Erich Kahler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887387883
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1989
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table 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