Will Western civilization survive
Subtitle: challenging readings for contemporary times
By: edited by Edward Alcott.
Contributors: Alcott, Edward.
Publisher: Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co.
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Dubuque, Iowa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 174
Subjects: Civilization, Western.; Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The unfinished business of politics / Karl W. Deutsch; title: Learning to live in a technological society : toward a world community / Harrison Brown; title: Parliamentary democracy on trial / Arnold Toynbee; title: The Neanderthal mentality / Charles E. Osgood; title: The future of mankind / Karl Jaspers; title: Religion and the world order / Warren Wagar; title: An historian's approach to religion / Arnold Toynbee; title: Christianity and civilization / Arnold Toynbee; title: Progress and providence / Robert Nisbet; title: Christianity and Western culture / Christopher Dawson; title: The handicap of affluence / Arnold Toynbee; title: Toward a human-scale technology / E.F. Schumacher; title: Epilogue / E.F. Schumacher; title: Can the world be saved? / LaMont C. Cole; title: Not by bread alone / Barbara Ward; title: The culture of machine living / Max Lerner; title: A stable world / Bertrand Russell; title: The future of knowledge, two possibilities / Gilbert Highet; title: The crisis of affluence / Harrison Brown; title: The tradition of the future / Allan Nevens; title: The world's double standard / Lance Morrow; title: America's opportunity / G. Myrdal; title: What is the future of society? : an ironic aside / Arnold Toynbee.