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Will Western civilization survive : challenging readings for contemporary times /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Alcott, Edward
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Dubuque, Iowa : Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., [1981]
Subjects:
Civilization, Western.
Civilization, Modern > 20th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The unfinished business of politics / Karl W. Deutsch
  • Learning to live in a technological society : toward a world community / Harrison Brown
  • Parliamentary democracy on trial / Arnold Toynbee
  • The Neanderthal mentality / Charles E. Osgood
  • The future of mankind / Karl Jaspers
  • Religion and the world order / Warren Wagar
  • An historian's approach to religion / Arnold Toynbee
  • Christianity and civilization / Arnold Toynbee
  • Progress and providence / Robert Nisbet
  • Christianity and Western culture / Christopher Dawson
  • The handicap of affluence / Arnold Toynbee
  • Toward a human-scale technology / E.F. Schumacher
  • Epilogue / E.F. Schumacher
  • Can the world be saved? / LaMont C. Cole
  • Not by bread alone / Barbara Ward
  • The culture of machine living / Max Lerner
  • A stable world / Bertrand Russell
  • The future of knowledge, two possibilities / Gilbert Highet
  • The crisis of affluence / Harrison Brown
  • The tradition of the future / Allan Nevens
  • The world's double standard / Lance Morrow
  • America's opportunity / G. Myrdal
  • What is the future of society? : an ironic aside / Arnold Toynbee.