Arendt explores the institutions and operations of totalitarian movements, focusing on the two genuine forms of totalitarian government in our time—Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia—which she adroitly recognizes were two sides of the same coin, rather than opposing philosophies of Right and Left. From this vantage point, she discusses the evolution of classes into masses, the role of propaganda in dealing with the nontotalitarian world, the use of terror, and the nature of isolation and loneliness as preconditions for total domination.

    Built from aphorisms and reflections, he shifts in register from personal experience to the most general theoretical problems.

    The central theme of the volume is the symbolic representation of the psychic totality through the concept of the Self, whose traditional historical equivalent is the figure of Christ. Jung demonstrates his thesis by an investigation of the Allegoria Christi, especially the fish symbol, but also of Gnostic and alchemical symbolism, which he treats as phenomena of cultural assimilation. The first four chapters, on the ego, the shadow, and the anima and animus, provide a valuable summation of these key concepts in Jung's system of psychology.

    The True Believer -- the first and most famous of his books -- was made into a bestseller when President Eisenhower cited it during one of the earliest television press conferences. Completely relevant and essential for understanding the world today, The True Believer is a visionary, highly provocative look into the mind of the fanatic and a penetrating study of how an individual becomes one.

    Abraham Joshua Heschel's philosophy of religion is not a philosophy of doctrine or the interpretation of a dogma. He erects his carefully built structure of thought upon foundations which are universally valid but almost generally ignored. It was Man Is Not Alone which led Reinhold Niebuhr accurately to predict that Heschel would "become a commanding and authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America." With its companion volume, God in Search of Man, it is revered as a classic of modern theology.

    The Wisdom of Insecurity underlines the importance of our search for stability in an age where human life seems particularly vulnerable and uncertain. Watts argues our insecurity is the consequence of trying to be secure and that, ironically, salvation and sanity lie in the recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves.

    For Albert Camus, the urge to revolt is one of the "essential dimensions" of human nature, manifested in man's timeless Promethean struggle against the conditions of his existence, as well as the popular uprisings against established orders throughout history. And yet, with an eye toward the French Revolution and its regicides and deicides, he shows how inevitably the course of revolution leads to tyranny, as old regimes throughout the world collapse, The Rebel resonates as an ardent, eloquent, and supremely rational voice of conscience for our tumultuous times.Translated from the French by Anthony Bower.

    His aim is not to produce a work of criticism or philosophy, or a mere discussion of poetic technique. As he explains in his introduction, his ambition in these various pieces, published in different times and places, aimed higher than that, in the direction of disclosing poetry itself, the naked poem, the imagination manifesting itself in its domination of words. Stevens proves himself as eloquent and scintillating in prose as in poetry, as he both analyzes and demonstrates the essential act of repossessing reality through the imagination.

    The foundations of the Buddhist Tantras are discussed and the Tantric presentation of divinity; the preparation of disciples and the meaning of initiation; symbolism of the mandala-palace Tantric ritual and the twilight language. This section explores the Tantric teachings of the inner Zodiac and the fivefold ritual symbolism of passion. The bibliographical research contains an analysis of the Tantric section of the Kanjur exegesis and a selected Western Bibliography of the Buddhist Tantras with comments.

    Describes how a man must work simultaneously on his knowledge and his being to find inner unity.

    One of the most influential figures of the twentieth century, he transformed philosophy and can lay claim to being one of the greatest philosophers of all time. He was a Nobel Prize winner for Literature and was imprisoned several times as a result of his pacifism. His views on religion, education, sex, politics and many other topics, made him one of the most read and revered writers of the age. This, his autobiography, is one of the most compelling and vivid ever written. This one-volume, compact paperback edition contains an introduction by the politician and scholar, Michael Foot, which explores the status of this classic nearly 30 years after the publication of the final volume.

    Built around the Hubbard Chart of Human Evaluation, Science of Survival provides the first accurate prediction of human behavior. Included on the chart are all the manifestations of an individual’s survival potential graduated from highest to lowest, making this the complete book on the Tone Scale. Knowing only one or two characteristics of a person and using this chart, you can plot his or her position on the Tone Scale and thereby know the rest, obtaining an accurate index of their entire personality, conduct and character. Before this book the world was convinced that cases could not improve but only deteriorate. Science of Survival presents the idea of different states of case and the brand-new idea that one can progress upward on the Tone Scale.

    The volume is remains a fascinating collection of ideas and explanations of cultures as diverse as the Greeks and the Norse, the Celts and the Jews, and the Chinese and the Romans.

    Ron Hubbard shows you how to move from effect to cause in life. Learn basic discoveries about life, including the incredible Axioms-the 194 codified natural laws that allow you to harness the powerful forces of life rather than be the effect of them.

    (Abridged from The Psychology of Art), will be forthcoming.

    It treats philosophy as not a collection of systems, but as a study of problems. It recognizes in traditional philosophical systems the historical function of having asked questions rather than having given solutions. Professor Reichenbach traces the failures of the systems to psychological causes.Speculative philosophers offered answers at a time when science had not yet provided the means to give true answers. Their search for certainty and for moral directives led them to accept pseudo-solutions. Plato, Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, and many others are cited to illustrate the rationalist fallacy: reason, unaided by observation, was regarded as a source of knowledge, revealing the physical world and "moral truth." The empiricists could not disprove this thesis, for they could not give a valid account of mathematical knowledge.Mathematical discoveries in the early nineteenth century cleared the way for modern scientific philosophy. Its advance was furthered by discoveries in modern physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology. These findings have made possible a new conception of the universe and of the atom. The work of scientists thus altered philosophy completely and brought into being a philosopher with a new attitude and training. Instead of dictating so-called laws of reason to the scientist, this modern philosopher proceeds by analyzing scientific methods and results. He finds answers to the age-old questions of space, time, causality, and life; of the human observer and the external world. He tells us how to find our way through this world without resorting to unjustifiable beliefs or assuming a supernatural origin for moral standards. Philosophy thus is no longer a battleground of contradictory opinions, but a science discovering truth step by step.Professor Reichenbach, known for his many contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, addresses this book to a wider audience. He writes for those who do not have the leisure or preparation to read in the fields of mathematics, symbolic logic, or physics. Besides showing the principal foundations of the new philosophy, he has been careful to provide the necessary factual background. He has written a philosophical study, not a mere popularization. It contains within its chapters all the necessary scientific material in an understandable form—and, therefore, conveys all the information indispensable to a modern world-view.The late Hans Reichenbach was Professor of Philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles. His previous books include

    Statistical normality is perfectly compatible with a high degree of folly and wickedness. In so far as he is a psychotherapist, the Oriental philosopher tries to help statistically normal individuals to become normal in the other, more fundamental sense of the word. This process of intellectual and psycho-physical adjustment to the Nature of Things is the «supreme doctrine"­ of Zen Buddhism, which Dr Benoit discusses in the light of Western psychological theory and Western psychiatric practise. This is a book that should be read by everyone who aspires to know who he is and what he can do to acquire such self-knowledge. From the Foreword by Aldous Huxley The Supreme Doctrine is a cogent statement of what Zen thought had to offer the practising Western psychiatrist. This is a book which assuredly still speaks for itself. T. H. Barrett, SOAS, University of London

    No matter how extensive the technologies of surveillance become, the forest can shelter the rebel, and the rebel can strike back against tyranny. Jünger's manifesto is a defense of freedom against the pressure to conform to political manipulation and artificial consensus. A response to the European experience under Nazism, Fascism, and Communism, The Forest Passage has lessons equally relevant for today, wherever an imposed uniformity threatens to stifle liberty.

    Includes edited diaries of Dion Fortune and Christine Hartley and The old religion by Charles Seymour.

    The chief end of this work is practical. There is urgent need at the present moment for a reasoned defense of the principles of theism. Contents: Existence of God: scope and importance of natural theology; demonstrability of God's existence; proofs of God's existence, metaphysical, physical and moral arguments; ontological argument; Kant's criticism and his alternative argument; Nature and Attributes of God: agnostic difficulties and the principle of their solution; divine essence; attributes relating to the divine nature; divine intellect; God's will and his beatitude; divine omnipotence; God in His Relation to the World: creation; rival theories considered; conservation and concurrence; providence and the problem of evil.

    Here, Christianity's foremost existentialist of the twentieth century gives us a prodigious personal insight on 'man on the way' that will reinforce and commend our own pilgrimages in hope.

    SRI RAM 1951. THIS volume consists of a number of addresses delivered in different places, and some articles dealing with matters touched upon in the addresses. They. are being printed in this form in the belief that they may be of interest to readers. The subject of Reality is a difficult one, and whatever is in the following pages represents the writers approach and is merely an attempt on his part to define his understanding. The stand point with regard to all matters in the book is that of a student of Theosophy, and what Theo sophy is, as seen from the writers point of view, is explained in one of the articles. To a true Theosophist who seeks the Wisdom without that dogmatism which ever negates the seeking, there is no finality in his understanding. Seeking implies discovery and each must have his own approach to whatever he may discover, But there is a value in exchange of views, and even if the comments of readers do not all reach the writer, the calling forth of those comments is in itself part of the process of exchange. The writing of this foreword serves one excellent purpose. That is to thank my friends and coworkers. Miss Elithe Nisewanger, Mr. M. Subramaniam and Miss Catherine A. Beechey for their valuable help in editing and correcting the proofs of this book, as well as the other small volumes which happen to bear my name.Foreword . . . I. Appearance and Reality II. Completeness in Thought and Reality III. Reality, Subjective or Objective ? IV. The Reality in Ourselves V. Reality in Our Living VI. The Law of Right Relationship VII. Theosophy, a Comprehensive Synthesis VIII. Imagination and Reality IX. The Pure Form X. The Supreme Being . XI. Being and Becoming XII. The Nature of Wisdom XIII. The Path to Spiritual Reality APPEARANCE AND REALITY THIS is a subject that has been discussed almost threadbare both in ancient India and by western philosophers. But our thoughts about it in these days have a basis which is different from that of the earlier times. The distinctive cast of the modern mind, in spite of its vagaries is scientific rather than rdetaphysical, tending to base itself on observations with the senses and the analysis to which we are now in a position to subject them. We are not living in a tradi tional world built on certain metaphysical assumptions, however true these assumptions might be as postulates for a coherent and satis factory system, or even as axioms selfevident to those whose thought can prove their validity. We live in an age of empiricism, though the field of empirical knowledge has become so avanced intellects of the day are able to build on it a structure of inferences or knowledge, which holds together coherently like a deductive system based on certain first principles.

    The author invites the reader to enter into the argument that he holds with himself on a great number of problems. Written in the early 1950s, Marcel’s discussion of these topics are remarkably contemporary, e.g.: * Our crisis is a metaphysical, not merely social, one. * What a man is depends partly on what he thinks he is, and a materialistic philosophy turns men into things. * Can a man be free except in a free country? * Stoicism is no longer a workable philosophy because today pressure can be put on the mind as well as on the body. * Technical progress is not evil in itself, but a technique is a means that, regarded as an end, can become either an idol or an excuse for self-idolatry. State control of scientific research, leading to a concentration on new means of destruction, is a calamity. * Fanaticism is an opinion that refuses to argue, and so the fanatic is an enemy of truth. * The kind of unification that science is bringing about today is really an ironing out of differences, but the only valuable kind of unity is one that implies a respect for differences. * We must beware of thinking in terms of great numbers and so blinding ourselves to the reality of individual suffering. Our philosophical approach to being is made possible only by our practical approach to our neighbor. * We must encourage the spirit of fraternity and distrust the kind of egalitarianism that is based on envy and resentment. * No man however humble should feel that he cannot spread the light among his friends. No easy solution is offered, but the author conveys his own faith that ultimately love and intelligence will triumph.

    In this autobiographical narrative, Gilson retraces his early education in the Catholic faith and its lasting influence on his life and thought, and describes his educational career at the University of Paris, where the always dynamic interaction of diverse schools of thought led him to his lifelong dedication to philosophical discourse.Gilson became a scholar of Descartes, and through Descartes and under the brilliant direction of Lévy-Bruhl, while at the Sorbonne he began a deep and unique study of medieval thought, which has resulted in his revolutionizing the understanding of early Christian thought and especially St. Thomas, and has brought to the modern world a new concept of Christian philosophy. In dealing with the main problems of his career as philosopher-scholar, Gilson gives a first-hand account of the attitudes and thoughts of such outsanding men as Durkheim, Brunschvicg, Péguy, Lévy-Bruhl and especially the Jewish philosopher Bergson, whose philosophy has had such an effect on modern Catholic thinkers.The Philosopher and Theology is the warm personal account of the development of a modern Scholastic among the conflicts of twentieth-century thought and those men who have played important roles in the history of philosophy.

    Young's thesis concludes that the higher activities of humans can be illuminated through an examination of the actual brain functions that produce them, and that these processes can be closely compared to those of a calculating machine.

    One is a belief in some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytic, or grounded in meanings independently of matters of fact, and truth which are synthetic, or grounded in fact. The other dogma is reductionism: the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience. Both dogmas, I shall argue, are ill founded. One effect of abandoning them is, as we shall see, a blurring of the supposed boundary between speculative metaphysics and natural science. Another effect is a shift toward pragmatism.

    Discusses the ultimated ethical and religious issues the confront modern man and offers a new orientation, directed to the renewal of life and the reintegration of modern civilization.

    

    The book includes biographical material, notes, and vocabulary.

    

    To read this book is to share in wonder at the mystery of life, uncovered by a great scientist who was also a great lyrical writer. To read Sir Charles on the eye making itself (pp. 105-113) is to attend a miracle.

    He offers a sincere and reverent Jewish view of Christ and of the unique and decisive character of His message to Jew and Gentile.