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A haunting theme of the present suggests that the rapid transformation of the West's social, scientific, and institutional orderings is shattering yesterday's assumptions about and standards of human belief and action. Furthermore, this transformation is offering little direction that guarantees qualitatively worthwhile human survival. Robert Nisbet (1975) suggests that the West is in a 'twilight age' and describes such an age as one in which, Processes of decline and erosion of institutions are more evident than those of genesis and development. Something like a vacuum obtains in the moral order for large numbers of people. Human loyalties, uprooted from accustomed soil, can be seen tumbling across the landscape with no scheme of larger purpose to fix them... There is a widely expressed sense of degradation of values and corruption of culture. The sense of estrangement from community is strong (p. 111 f.). Three decades earlier Simone de Beauvoir (1948) had claimed that, Men today seem to feel more acutely than ever the paradox of their condition. They know themselves to be the supreme end to which all action should be subordinated, but the exigencies of action force themselves to

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Author

Hermione Shantz; Charles Lusthaus; Marvin Westwood

Publisher

Springer US; Springer-Verlag; Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 0165-0653)

Published

1980

Language

EN

Field

Psychology (Social Sciences)