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Man Alone Alienation in modern society
Josephson, Eric & Mary (ed.) Publisher: Dell Publishing, New York, USA Year Published: 1969 First Published: 1962 Pages: 592pp Resource Type: Book
An anthology of essays examining aspects of alienation, asking questions such as what are the conditions that lead to alienation, and what as the possibilities of restoring a greater integration of the individual and the group?
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Table of Contents
Introduction / Eric and Mary Josephson
Alienation and Identity Alienation under Capitalism / Erich Fromm On Alienated Concepts of Identity / Ernest G. Schachtel
Work and Leisure The World We Have Lost / Peter Laslett Alienated Labor / Karl Marx The Myth of the Happy Worker / Harvey Swados The Mechanical Routine / Lewis Mumford Bureaucratic Structure and Personality / Robert K.Merton Life in the Crystal Palace / Alan Harrington The Great Emptiness / Robert MacIver
Mass Culture The Metropolis and Mental Life / Georg Simmel Wasteland / Marya Mannes The Decline of Religion / William Barrett The Decline of the Choral Dance / Paul Halmos Of Happiness and of Despair We Have No Measure / Ernest van den Haag
Politics The Mass Society / C. Wright Mills Political Alienation / Murray Levin Anxiety and Politics / Franz Neumann The Making of a Communist / Ignazio Silone
Science and War Science, the Destroyer or Creator / J. Bronowski Reflections on the H Bomb / Gunther Anders
Social Isolation Those on the Bottom / August Hollingshead Keeping Themselves to Themselves / Michael Young and Peter Willmott Isolation, Loneliness and the Hold on Life / Peter Townsend Of Our Spiritual Strivings / W. E. B. Du Bois Fifth Avenue, Uptown / James Baldwin
Rebels, Deviants and Retreatists Notes from Underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky The Bottom of the Heap: Problems of the Working Class Boy / Albert Cohen Short Talk with a Fascist Beast / Clancy Sigal Alcoholism / Seldon Bacon Bowery Man on the Couch / Elmer Bendiner Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness / William S. Burroughs From Handicap to Strength / Donald Cory Streetwalker / Anonymous Joey: A "Mechanical Boy" / Bruno Bettelheim Suicide in Denmark / Herbert Hendin
Integration Self-Alienation: Dynamics and Therapy / Frederick A.Weiss Aake Horsten / Giles Playfair and Derrick Sington The Mental Health of the Hutterites / Joseph W. Eaton and Robert J. Weil Argument of Strain / R. M. Titmuss The Individual and the Community / Murray Weingarten The Outgoing Life / William H. Whyte Thought Reform: Ideological Remolding in China / Harriet C. Mills Challenge of the "New Soviet Man" / Urie Bronfenbrenner
Epilogue The Hare and the Haruspex: A Cautionary Tale / Edward S. Deevey Suggested Readings
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