Human Mind in the Technological Age: Social Psychological Problems of the Industrial Society (Philosopher's Stone Series)

Author: Arnold Gehlen (Germany), translated by He Zhaowu and He Bing
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Publish Date: 2003-06-01
Features: In this classic work of Western philosophy and anthropology, the renowned German philosopher Arnold Gehlen, based on sociology and biology,ively proposed a unique theory of social psychology and effectively applied his theory to contemporary society, thoroughly analyzing the current position of humanity. He believed that traditional societies over the past few thousand years were stable agricultural societies with various stable institutions. However, the rapid advancement of technology has led humanity to bid farewell to that tranquil conventional society, broken its stable institutions, and stepped into a fast-paced, rapidly changing modern society. In this undefined society, human spirit, thought, ethics, and the like will be forced to face this great challenge. In the process of confronting this massive transformation, humanity has produced various contradictions and conflicts, thus giving rise to various psychological crises. The internal contradictions of modern civilization and the psychological imbalances it has caused are not crises of this or that aspect of human civilization but rather a crisis of the entire human civilization coordinate system. For such a fundamental issue, we cannot expect any single work to provide the final answer. However, as Gehlen develops his central argument, he puts forward many of his own unique insights, which we believe will surely inspire us.