On Being Human Book

	Editor's Foreword	9
I	The Humanistic Alternative
1	Modern Man and the Future	15
	Stages in the Development of Western Man	17
	Alienation as a Disease of Modern Man	23
	Indifference as a New Manifestation of Evil	27
	The Alternative: A Renaissance of Humanism	29
2	The Psychological Problem of Man in Modern Society	31
3	What I Do Not Like in Contemporary Society	38
4	The Disintegration of Societies	41
	The Nature of Systems	42
	On Disintegration of Social Systems	45
	Disintegration or Reintegration of Contemporary Technological Society	47
5	The Search for a Humanistic Alternative	50
	Where Are We Moving to?	51
	The Conditions for a Humanist-Activist Alternative	54
	The Necessity for an Alternative Movement	58
6	A New Humanism as a Condition for the One World	61
	The History of the Idea of Humanism	63
	The Relevance of Humanism for Today	74
II	Humanistic Initiatives and Confessions
7	The Idea of a World Conference	83
8	Campaign for Eugene McCarthy	88
9	On the Common Struggle against Idolatry	96
10	Some Beliefs of Man, in Man, for Man	99
11	Remarks on the Relations between Germans and Jews	105
III	Meister Eckhart and Karl Marx on Having and Being
	Introduction	114
12	Meister Eckhart	116
	On the Understanding of His Ideas	116
	On Having and Being	123
	The Sermon on Poverty	128
13	Karl Marx	132
	The "Religious" Interests of Marx	132
	Excursus: Religion and the Concept of God	133
	Humanism as Secular Messianism	139
	Having and Being, According to Marx	148
14	The Common "Religious" Concern	159
	The Tradition of Mysticism	159
	Atheistic Religiosity	165
	Bibliography	171
	Index	175