Self, Earth, and Society

Our era is experiencing unparalleled and rapid transience. The twentieth century began with the telephone and ended with e-mail. People change jobs and homes a half-dozen times or more in their lives. Air and water pollution are threatening the well-being of the earth itself. Wars, their multiplying refugees, and political crises are tearing societies apart.If there is a key word for our era, it might be alienation. Amid increasing and often chaotic complexity, individuals struggle to attain an