Author:
Lifton, Robert Jay, 1926-
Imprint:New York : Basic Books, c1987.
Descriptionx, 305 p. ; 25 cm.
Note:Includes index.
Note:The future of immortality. - Is Hiroshima our text? - The Hiroshima connection. - Vietnam--beyond atrocity. - The postwar world. - Medicalized killing in Auschwitz. - "Decent" people and evil projects. - The inability to mourn: Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich. - The new psychology of human survival. - The nuclear illusion. - Beyond the nuclear end. - Prophetic survivors. - Dreaming well: frontiers of form. - Doubling: the Faustian bargain. - Cults: religious totalism and civil liberties. - Suicide: the quest for a future. - The concept of the survivor. - The survivor as creator. - Art and the imagery of extinction. - Toward a nuclear age ethos.
Bibliography Note:Bibliography: p. [279]-288.
