The Case for Modern Man

Harper & Brothers, 1956-01-01. Hardcover. Good/Good. Harper & Brothers, New York [Published Date: 1956]. Hardcover, 240 pp. Stated First Edition. Good in good dust jacket. Black cloth covered boards with gold HB emblem on bottom corner of front cover and gold lettering on spine. Light bumping and scuffing to edges of covers. Binding tight. Previous owner's book plate on front paste-down and name stamped on top front cover of front free end paper. Otherwise pages are lightly aged but unmarked. Dust jacket has a 1" tear to the paper over the top edge of the front cover and a few other smaller nicks and tear and light creasing along edges. L ight overall scuffing, aging and soling to jacket as well. NOT price clipped Now in an archival-quality (removable) Brodart Cover. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [From jacket flap]. This book challenges the reader to use his head. It challenges him to believe in his own destiny, in his own mastery of the future. It is a brilliant answer to the pessimists who are trying to frighten us with tales of sin and disaster - or those who hold the view that man is a victim of circumstances. Here is a positive statement, a distinguished and inspiring one, which looks at man today in the light of his history and proves that in spite of the prophets of doom we can make a better world by using our intelligence. Mr. Frankel discusses in a lively fashion the basic notions of Marx and Freud and their influence today. He gives a close scrutiny to the pronouncements of Maritain, Niebuhr and other doctrinal thinkers. He devotes a masterly re-examination to the liberal tradition and the men who created it, and shows how that tradition has, today, greater usefulness than ever before. The way to meet the crises of the modern world, Mr. Frankel convincingly demonstrates, is to restore our faith in ourselves, to restore confidence in our ability to make a better future. The reader will find in these pages not only a mature wisdom and incisive thinking, but a hopeful and clearly reasoned message for today and for tomorrow, a message about our values, our ideas of right and wrong, and our ultimate aims. The Case for Modern Man is a stimulating and encouraging work. Highly readable and provocative, it will arouse controversy especially among the proclaimers of doomsday. To most men and women it will be a welcome invitation to self-reliance in the established American way, to doing our own thinking, to playing our part in the shaping of the better life that we all can have.