TY  - BOOK
AU  - Charles R. Reid
PY  - 2017
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781433140594
TI  - The Philosophical Future
T2  - Man’s Psychic Journey: End or Beginning?
DO  - 10.3726/b10752
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1055143
N2  - 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?
LA  - English
ER  -