Man Alone
Alienation in modern society

Publisher:  Dell Publishing, New York, USA
Year First Published:  1962
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
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