Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society (1962)

New York City: Dell (book, anthology), 1962.
7.125" x 4.125" x 0.875", 592 pages, softcover, later printing.

Man Alone: Alienation in Modern Society, edited by Eric and Mary Josephson, published by Dell (New York City) in 1962. Pictured is a later printing.

William S. Burroughs contributes "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness", pp. 410-417. "Deposition" is found in most editions of Burroughs' novel Naked Lunch.

Not in Maynard & Miles.

Shoaf II.8.

Contents: 

• Eric and Mary Josephson: Introduction
• Alienation and Identity:
• Erich Fromm: "Alienation under Capitalilsm"
• Ernest G. Schachtel: "On Alienated Concepts of Identity"
• Work and Leisure:
• Peter Laslett: "The Word We Have Lost"
• Karl Marx: "Alienated Labor"
• Harvey Swados: "The Myth of the Happy Worker"
• Lewis Mumford: "The Mechanical Routine"
• Robert K. Merton: "Bureaucratic Structure and Personality"
• Alan Harrington: "Life in the Crystal Palace"
• Robert MacIver: "The Great Emptiness"
• Mass Culture:
• Georg Simmel: "The Metropolis and Mental LIfe"
• Marya Mannes: "Wasteland"
• William Barrett: "The Decline of Religion"
• Paul Halmos: "The Decline of the Choral Dance"
• Ernest van den Haag: "Of Happiness and Despair We Have No Measure"
• Politics:
• C. Wright Mills: "The Mass Society"
• Murray Levin: "Political Alienation"
• Franz Neumann: "Anxiety and Politics"
• Ignazio Silone: "The Making of a Communist"
• Science and War:
• J. Bronowski: "Science: The Destroyer or Creator"
• Gunther Anders: "Reflections on the H Bomb"
• Social Isolation:
• August Hollingshead: "Those on the Bottom"
• Michael Young and Peter Willmott: "Keeping Themselves to Themselves"
• Peter Townsend: "Isolation, Loneliness and the Hold on Life"
• W. E. B. Du Bois: "Of Our Spiritual Strivings"
• James Baldwin: "Fifth Avenue, Uptown"
• Rebels, Deviants and Retreatists:
• Fyodor Dostoyevsky: "Notes from Underground"
• Albert Cohen: "The Bottom of the Heap: Problems of the Working Class Boy"
• Clancy Sigal: "Short Talk with a Fascist Beast"
• Selden Bacon: "Alcoholism"
• Elmer Bendiner: "Bowery Man on the Couch"
• William S. Burroughs: "Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness"
• Donald Cory: "From Handicap to Strength"
• Anonymous: "Streetwalker"
• Bruno Bettelheim: "Joey: A 'Mechanical Boy'"
• Herbert Hendin: "Suicide in Denmark"
• Integration:
• Frederick A. Weiss: "Self-Alienation: Dynamics and Therapy"
• Giles Playfair and Derrick Sington: "Aake Horsten"
• Joseph W. Eaton and Robert J. Weil: "The Mental Health of the Hutterites"
• R. M. Titmuss: "Argument of Strain"
• Murray Weingarten: "The Individual and the Community"
• William H. Whyte: "The Outgoing Life"
• Harriet C. Mills: "Thought Reform: Ideological Remolding in China"
• Urie Bronfenbrenner: "Challenge of the 'New Soviet Man'"
• Epilogue:
• Edward S. Deevey: "The Hare and the Haruspex: A Cautionary Tale" 
• Suggested Readings