Problematic Man spo-default With the help of her

With the help of her great-great-grandmother

as by standing there in silence and making

By Ida Friederike Görres || Translated by Jennifer S

At the time of its original publication in 1940

Problematic Man spo-default With the help of herBy Gabriel Marcel Modernity has expanded upon the Psalmists admonition to put ones trust not in princes. Power can assume, to borrow Gabriel Marcels phrase, an infinity of masks; yet these masks only obscure the vacuity of ideology and its inability to save man from himself. Problematic Man pursues both diagnosis and prognosis of the existential condition of modern man. Between the death of God which Nietzsche proclaimed and the atmosphere of anxiety,