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Since the publication of The Modern Temper thirty years ago, Joseph Wood Krutch has maintained and enhanced his distinguished place in American letters. Now, for the first time since the publication of The Measure of Man-which won the National Book Award as the most important work of nonfiction in 1954 Dr. Krutch has written a book about his central concern, the nature of man and society. In HUMAN NATURE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION, he contributes a searching commentary on American life today. This book focuses on concepts familiar to all of us. and, characteristically. Dr. Krutch probes them in highly original and concrete fashion. Sympathetic and incorruptible, he writes about such vital contemporary problems as prosperity and the cult of the "high standard of living" (how synonymous is with the "good life"?): the problem of the threatened loss of our belief in the dignity of man; the peculiar nature of American materialism; the question of more "leisure" for whom and for what; and the meaning of the welfare state. The Measure of Man was a defense of the reality of human choice and will against HUMAN NATURE AND THE HUMAN CONDITION upholds the validity of value judgments against Relat

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Author

Krutch, Joseph Wood, Krutch, Joseph Wood

Publisher

Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press

Published

1979

Language

EN

ISBN

9780313210105

Category

psychology

Subjects

History, Psychology, Humanities

Rating

2.9 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14