The tower and the abyss : an inquiry into the transformation of the individual

First published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis. Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- Introduction to the Original Edition -- Chapter One. The Human Scene: Individual, Community, Collective -- Chapter Two. The Split from Without: I Collectivization -- Chapter Three: The Split from Without: II Totalization and Terror -- Chapter Four. The Split from Within: I Second Consciousness and Fractionized Universe -- Chapter Five. The Split from Within: II New Sensibility, Psychoanalysis and Existentialist Experience -- Chapter Six. Man Without Values -- Chapter Seven. Possible Utopia -- Postscript -- Notes -- Index This book shows the various evolutionary forces which have converged from different directions to effect human disintegration. It discusses the evidences of disintegration in all fields of contemporary experience, from social, political and economic processes to those in learning, art and poetry.