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Description of  The Philosophical Future: Man s Psychic Journey: End or Beginning? (American University Studies)

This book surveys the breadth of mankinds postmodern malaise, which is achieved through a discussion of the major challenges, social and psychological, which every individual faces in the effort to live fully in the twenty-first century. These challenges lay in broadly familiar domains: self- and group-consciousness common man and his place in a future society in which mental activity dominates work and leisure knowledge and values accruing from it, both for self and others possibilities in education civilization, with its Dark Age phenomena and its dreams of progress the role of the past in contemporary life and power, both in society and within the sovereign individual who, though bound by physical and intellectual limits, functions as a seeker after the freedom and self-fulfillment which are so wholly integral to the human condition. And finally a serious question: What fate awaits the perpetual non-conformist, whose views, however unwelcome in his own time and in a contemporary environment, may in fact anticipate future living conditions? Read more