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:	9781351472654
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	09/29/2017
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	401
File size:	621 KB

About the Author

Erich Kahler

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