1st Edition

The Tower and the Abyss

By Erich Kahler Copyright 1989
360 Pages
by Routledge

401 Pages
by Routledge

401 Pages
by Routledge

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.

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

Biography

Erich Kahler