The tower and the abyss : an inquiry into the transformation of the individual

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The tower and the abyss : an inquiry into the transformation of the individual

Erich Kahler ; with a new introduction by Joseph Frank

Transaction Publishers, 1989

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Reprint. Originally published: New York : G. Braziller, 1957

Bibliography: p. 309-330

Includes index

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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.

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

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