"Max Picard (1888-1965) was a Swiss-German writer, who converted to Catholicism from Judaism. A doctor and psychologist, Picard worked in Berlin but retired in the 1920s to Switzerland. He is often regarded as a "wisdom thinker," and his rich and penetrating writings continue to speak to us in the twenty-first century. The Flight from God is an incisive, profound description of many of the problems facing modern culture, and its analysis resonates with us more today than when first published in 1934. Picard illustrates that ...
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"Max Picard (1888-1965) was a Swiss-German writer, who converted to Catholicism from Judaism. A doctor and psychologist, Picard worked in Berlin but retired in the 1920s to Switzerland. He is often regarded as a "wisdom thinker," and his rich and penetrating writings continue to speak to us in the twenty-first century. The Flight from God is an incisive, profound description of many of the problems facing modern culture, and its analysis resonates with us more today than when first published in 1934. Picard illustrates that modern culture is essentially in Flight, and so the individual is under pressure to make a choice; in earlier generations only an individual could be in flight because the culture itself was not in flight but in Faith. The flight does not require courage or guilt; yet it is to be found in, and is often destructive of, many facets of life including human relationships, art, economics, science, entertainment, even religion. Because of this it leaves many in anguish, from which we seek alternative avenues of structure and meaning. Yet, in every person there is a residue that will not yield itself to the flight, and this is bound up with love, which reminds us of God. Picard shows how God is always somehow present in the flight--just when we think we are arriving from the flight, we find that God is already there. Picard's identification and discussion of the roots of the distresses of modern culture, and its attempts to grapple with the spiritual dimension of human experience, along with tensions created by freedom and individuality, are clearly still of the greatest relevance for us today"--
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Fair. 185p. A softcover ex-library book in original binding. Label on spine; edges worn and hinges slightly creased. Labels, stamp, and card pocket on endpapers. Otherwise, very good condition with text clean and binding tight. With a Note on Max Picard by Gabriel Marcel and an Introduction by J.M. Cameron. Translated from the German by Marianne Kuschnitzky and J.M. Cameron. From The Humanist Library.
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Max Picard was Swiss and wrote in German. He was born in 1888 and was influential during his lifetime but is little known now. Loren Eiseley included this book in the bibliography of one of his works.
The first problem is to understand how to read this book. It cannot be read as a philosophical treatise. Nor can it be read as a religious tract. It is in fact an elegiac poem -- in prose. Whatever inspired Francis Thomson to write "The Hound of Heaven" inspired Max Picard to write this book. They share the same theme -- man's tendency to try to live independently and God's infinite patience in offering him His love and protection.
Imagine yourself listening to a bard declaim a long poem in the Great Hall by firelight. Open your mind to his imagery and you will learn something worth knowing.
