On Being Human.

Intro -- Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- I. The Humanistic Alternative -- 1. Modern Man and the Future -- Stages in the Development of Western Man -- Alienation as a Disease of Modern Man -- Indifference as a New Manifestation of Evil -- The Alternative: A Renaissance of Humanism -- 2. The Psychological Problem of Man in Modern Society -- 3. What I Do Not Like in Contemporary Society -- 4. The Disintegration of Societies -- The Nature of Systems -- On Disintegration of Social Systems -- Disintegration or Reintegration of Contemporary Technological Society -- 5. The Search for a Humanistic Alternative -- Where Are We Moving to? -- The Conditions for a Humanist Activist Alternative -- The Necessity for an Alternative Movement -- 6. A New Humanism as a Condition for the One World -- The History of the Idea of Humanism -- The Relevance of Humanism for Today -- II. Humanistic Initiatives and Confessions -- 7. The Idea of a World Conference -- 8. Campaign for Eugene McCarthy -- 9. On the Common Struggle against Idolatry -- 10. Some Beliefs of Man, in Man, for Man -- 11. Remarks on the Relations between Germans and Jews -- III. Meister Eckhart and Karl Marx on Having and Being -- Introduction -- 12. Meister Eckhart -- On the Understanding of His Ideas -- On Having and Being -- The Sermon on Poverty -- 13. Karl Marx: The "Religious" Interests of Marx -- Excursus: Religion and the Concept of God -- Humanism as Secular Messianism -- Having and Being, According to Marx -- 14. The Common "Religious" Concern -- The Tradition of Mysticism -- Atheistic Religiosity -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Copyright.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.