Man Alone
Alienation in modern society

Publisher:  Dell Publishing, New York, USA
Year First Published:  {16813 Man Alone MAN ALONE Alienation in modern society Josephson, Eric & Mary (ed.) Dell Publishing New York USA 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? 1962 1969 592pp BC16813s-ManAlone.jpg B Book - <br> <br> <br>Table of Contents <br> <br>Introduction / Eric and Mary Josephson <br> <br>Alienation and Identity <br>Alienation under Capitalism / Erich Fromm <br>On Alienated Concepts of Identity / Ernest G. Schachtel <br> <br>Work and Leisure <br>The World We Have Lost / Peter Laslett <br>Alienated Labor / Karl Marx <br>The Myth of the Happy Worker / Harvey Swados <br>The Mechanical Routine / Lewis Mumford <br>Bureaucratic Structure and Personality / Robert K.Merton <br>Life in the Crystal Palace / Alan Harrington <br>The Great Emptiness / Robert MacIver <br> <br>Mass Culture <br>The Metropolis and Mental Life / Georg Simmel <br>Wasteland / Marya Mannes <br>The Decline of Religion / William Barrett <br>The Decline of the Choral Dance / Paul Halmos <br>Of Happiness and of Despair We Have No Measure / Ernest van den Haag <br> <br>Politics <br>The Mass Society / C. Wright Mills <br>Political Alienation / Murray Levin <br>Anxiety and Politics / Franz Neumann <br>The Making of a Communist / Ignazio Silone <br> <br>Science and War <br>Science, the Destroyer or Creator / J. Bronowski <br>Reflections on the H Bomb / Gunther Anders <br> <br>Social Isolation <br>Those on the Bottom / August Hollingshead <br>Keeping Themselves to Themselves / Michael Young and Peter Willmott <br>Isolation, Loneliness and the Hold on Life / Peter Townsend <br>Of Our Spiritual Strivings / W. E. B. Du Bois <br>Fifth Avenue, Uptown / James Baldwin <br> <br>Rebels, Deviants and Retreatists <br>Notes from Underground / Fyodor Dostoyevsky <br>The Bottom of the Heap: Problems of the Working Class <br>Boy / Albert Cohen <br>Short Talk with a Fascist Beast / Clancy Sigal <br>Alcoholism / Seldon Bacon <br>Bowery Man on the Couch / Elmer Bendiner <br>Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness / William S. Burroughs <br>From Handicap to Strength / Donald Cory <br>Streetwalker / Anonymous <br>Joey: A "Mechanical Boy" / Bruno Bettelheim <br>Suicide in Denmark / Herbert Hendin <br> <br>Integration <br>Self-Alienation: Dynamics and Therapy / Frederick A.Weiss <br>Aake Horsten / Giles Playfair and Derrick Sington <br>The Mental Health of the Hutterites / Joseph W. Eaton and Robert J. Weil <br>Argument of Strain / R. M. Titmuss <br>The Individual and the Community / Murray Weingarten <br>The Outgoing Life / William H. Whyte <br>Thought Reform: Ideological Remolding in China / Harriet C. Mills <br>Challenge of the "New Soviet Man" / Urie Bronfenbrenner <br> <br>Epilogue <br>The Hare and the Haruspex: A Cautionary Tale / Edward S. Deevey <br>Suggested Readings 1 false false true CA16813.htm [] Ca}
Year Published:  1969
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