Ebook: Social Philosophies of An Age of Crisis

A compact and easily read examina¬ tion of some of the leading modern philosophies and theories of history, in an attempt to help towards an understanding of the acute problems of our own age. Professor Sorokin, founder of the Department of Sociology at Harvard, in this most recent of his published works, explains the basic ideas of a number of modern philosophers, among them Danilevsky, Spengler, Toynbee, Berdyaev, Northrop, and Schweitzer. He analyses the points at which they agree or disagree, and draws from them their contribution to a deeper and more valid understanding of man and his destiny, at a time of unsettlement, insecurity and social upheaval.