Title: Problematic rebel, an image of modern man.
Authors: Friedman, Maurice S.
Publisher: Random House
Year: 1963
Subjects: Civilization, Modern.; Dissenters in literature.; Literature, Modern History and criticism; Civilization; Philosophy; Literature; Religion
Contents: Pt. I Between Prometheus and Job -- The Biblical rebel and the Greek rebel -- Doctor Faustus and Faust -- Pt. II The death of God and the alienation of modern man -- The death of God and the exile of man -- The sundering of truth and reality: Moby Dick -- Pt. III The modern exile -- Ishmael, Bartleby, and the confidence man -- The underground man -- Kafka and the hunger artist -- Pt. IV The modern Promethean -- Nietzsche's Zarathustra and Melville's Captian Ahab -- Dostoievsky's "man-god" -- Pt. V The problematic of modern man -- Personal freedom and psychological compulsion -- Fathers and sons: the divided man -- The crisis of motives and the problematic of guilt -- The paradox of the person in the modern world -- Pt. VI The modern Job -- Moby Dick and the Brothers Karamazov -- Kafka's K. and Camus' Doctor Rieux -- Pt. VI A depth-image of modern man -- The problematic rebel and the modern Job.