The Return of the Individual: Rescue Attempts in a Bureaucratic Age - Hardcover

Kraus, Wolfgang

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820401943 ISBN 13: 9780820401942

Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 1985

Synopsis

Wolfgang Kraus, one of the most widely read Austrian essayists, is bravely attempts to save the individual from bureaucracy, from drowning in over-organization.
He encourages the human race to fight for self-expression and self-determination and against those forces of society which erode the sense of individuality.
Kraus takes a long hard look at our civilizations and discusses bureaucratic tyranny from its Asiatic and Byzantine origins to Soviet Communism. In his opinion the Western civilizations are equally guilty of condoning a certain amount of diminishing personal freedom, but he maintains that for the West all is not lost and that ever growing awareness of the concept of Human Rights, traditions of culture and the arts may prove to be the salvation of the individual.

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Review

-The return of the individual is an illuminating, often brilliant defense of the individual in an age that assault his individuality...an important Central European voice...opens new and profound perspectives.- (Frederic Morton)"

About the Author

John Russell is a software developer and technical writer, and he's currently the documentation lead for the Cloudera Impala project. He has a broad range of database and SQL experience from previous roles on industry-leading teams. For DB2, he designed and coded the very first Information Center. For Oracle Database, he documented application development subjects and designed and coded the Project Tahiti doc search engine. For MySQL, he documented the InnoDB storage engine. Originally from Newfoundland, Canada, John now resides in Berkeley, California.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc
• Publication date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820401943
• ISBN 13: 9780820401942
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 187