[This is the Table of Contents for Murphey’s book Understanding the Modern Predicament.]

CONTENTS

PART I: MAN’S IMMATURITY

*Chapter 1: The Predicament……………………………………………………………………..3

*Chapter 2: Man’s Basic Immaturity…………………………………………………………….13

*Chapter 3: The Missing Paradigm: Greece……………………………………………………..25

*Chapter 4: The Missing Paradigm: Rome………………………………………………………49

*Chapter 5: The Missing Paradigm: The Middle Ages…………………………………………...87

*Chapter 6: The Impact of Immaturity………………………………………………………….109

PART II: THE MODERN CRISIS

*Chapter 7: We Reach the Modern Crisis……………………………………………………….129

*Chapter 8: The Rise of the Multitudes………………………………………………………….131

*Chapter 9: Existential Problems in a Commercial Culture……………………………………….167

*Chapter 10: The Alienation of the Intellectual…………….……………………………………...189

*Chapter 11: Causes of the Alienation……………………………………………………………243

*Chapter 12: Consequences of the Alienation…………………………………………………….277

PART III: REFLECTIONS OF THE CRISIS

*Chapter 13: The French Revolution……………………………………………………………..305

*Chapter 14: The Russian Nihilist………………………………………………………………..319

*Chapter 15: Cobden, Bright, Palmerston and World War I……………………………………..333

*Chapter 16: German Youth, Volkish Ideology and the Nazi Phenomenon……………………….351

*Chapter 17: Latin America and the Cold War…………………………………………………..371

*EPILOGUE: Looking to Other Dimensions…………………………………………………………….381