MAREK, KURT W. (C. W. CERAM) - Yestermorrow Notes on Man's Progress

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First American Edition. Hardcover. White cloth spiine is moderately foxed but lettering is unaffected. Very minor wear and soil on the sound binding. Colored top edge is a little mottled. Contents are clean and unworn. ; 9-1/8" Tall, 155pp. Black boards, white cloth spine, blue lettering. PHILOSOPHY. Translated from the German, PROVOKATORISCHE NOTIZEN, by Ralph Manheim. "Mr. Marek views the 'decline ' of the last of the great high cultures (modern civilization) without regret. He recognizes in the unprecedented global extension of the latest 'civilization' many indications - above all, the hitherto unparalleled phenomenon of technology itself - presaging for the first time in 5, 000 years a deep-reaching crisis of accelerated change in ALL of human life. It is not the rise of a new 'high culture, ' in the old sense, which is in the offing, but a new global order that has little use for nearly all the valuses of the past high cultures and, indeed, can do quite well withouit them. This new order will be logically, and to an unprecedented degree, determined by technology. And the author takes a positive view of it. " An unusual feature of this book is that the index contains a glossary.. Good+ .