UID:
almahu_9949703475602882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004458659
,
9789042014473
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 119
Content:
This book explores human possibility at the end of the twentieth century. It takes the form of discussion between an eminent philosopher and a skilled journalist about "the human measure" as it engages false absolutes and their accompanying utopias. The book proposes a "third way" between capitalism and socialism, and it concludes with comments on end-of-century phenomena, including democracy, intellectuals, and terrorism.
Note:
Nicola ABBAGNANO: Frontispiece -- Foreword by Peter A. Redpath -- Editor's Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- ONE Author's Introduction -- 1. What Is This Book About? -- 2. Individuality and Sociality -- 3. The "Third Way" -- 4. The Measured Way -- 5. Humanity as the Measure -- 6. The Infinite and Human Nature -- TWO The Human Project: Revolt of the Individual -- THREE The Human Project: The Third Way -- FOUR Comment on the Interview: Dignity and Freedom -- 1. Putting the Project to the Test -- 2. Battle for Dignity -- 3. Discipline of Choices -- 4. Escape from Anonymity -- 5. The Individual and Ideology -- 6. The Third Way and Humanistic Socialism -- 7. Intellectuals and Freedom -- 8. Immoralism and Political Moralism -- 9. Democracy Today -- FIVE Comment on the Interview: Risk and Salvation -- 1. Wisdom and Risk -- 2. Sense of Insecurity -- 3. Biological Risk -- 4. Vital Balance -- 5. Threat of Aggressiveness -- 6. Risk of the Bomb -- 7. Menace of Terrorism -- 8. Prospect of Decline -- 9. Prospect of Rebirth -- 10. Prospect of Faith and Atheism -- 11. Prospect of Pantheism -- 12. Prospect of Humanist Religion -- 13. Prospect of Christian Humanism -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Part One: Works by Abbagnano -- Part Two: Works by Others -- About the Author -- About the Translators and Editor -- Index.
Additional Edition:
Print version: The Human Project : The Year 2000. Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2002 ISBN 9789042014473
Language:
English
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