The Philosophical Future: Man’S Psychic Journey: End Or Beginning? (American University Studies)

This book surveys the breadth of mankind's 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?

• | Author: Charles R. Reid
• | Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• | Publication Date: Nov 17, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 276 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Philosophy
• | ISBN-10: 1433140586
• | ISBN-13: 9781433140587