Confronting the Myth of Human Progress: Thomas Merton and the Illusion of Privilege
The article focuses on challenges related to myth of human progress signified by American writer Thomas Merton in his writings. Topics discussed include a difference made in between human person and alienated individual by Merton; poem "Atlas and the Fatman," book "Conjectures of a Gu...
Main Author: | |
---|---|
Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
Journals Online & Print: | |
Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
Published: |
AMS Press
[2015]
|
In: |
The Merton annual
Year: 2015, Volume: 28, Pages: 149-158 |
RelBib Classification: | CD Christianity and Culture CF Christianity and Science KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history NBE Anthropology |
Further subjects: | B
Human Growth
B CONJECTURES of a Guilty Bystander (Book) B Merton, Thomas, 1915-1968 B ATLAS & the Fat man (Poem) B Mythology B Narcissism |
Summary: | The article focuses on challenges related to myth of human progress signified by American writer Thomas Merton in his writings. Topics discussed include a difference made in between human person and alienated individual by Merton; poem "Atlas and the Fatman," book "Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander" by Merton related to person-based humanism; critiques of illusions of mass-technological society and narcissistic humanism by Merton. |
---|---|
ISSN: | 0894-4857 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: The Merton annual
|