7 INTRODUCTION
  CHAPTER ONE
  SENSE OF CONTENTEDNESS
10 PURPOSE
12 MECHANISM OF MOULDING
24 CONSUMER IDEOLOGY
39 AGONY OF MORALS
  CHAPTER TWO
  ANXIETIES AND MYTHS OF THE SENSE OF CONTENTEDNESS
49 SELF-COGNITION
  “THREATS TO CIVILISATION”
53 [introduction.]
53 Urbanisation
57 Threat to Health
61 Anti-Utopia of Neohedonism
64 THE SENSE OF CONTENTEDNESS AND SOCIAL REFORMISM
70 MYTHS OF INDUSTRIAL AND POSTINDUSTRIAL SOCIETY
86 ANARCHO-HEDONISM
  CHAPTER THREE
  SENSE OF WRETCHEDNESS
98 AT A CROSSROADS
108 SEDUCTION BY NIHILISM
122 MYTHOLOGY OF NEGATION AND DESPAIR
135 DEMYTHOLOGISATION OF DESPAIR
  CHAPTER FOUR
  IDEALS OF THE SENSE OF WRETCHEDNESS
  THE QUEST FOR A WAY OUT
165 [introduction.]
169 Quietism
173 Stoicism
176 Anarcho-Asceticism
182 THE MORALITY OF “OUTLETS”
191 AT THE CROSSROADS AGAIN
  CHAPTER FIVE
  IN FACE OF THE NEW SOCIAL REALITY
202 THE FALL
203 SOCIALISM AND THE NEW WAY OF LIFE
210 REVOLUTIONARY-CRITICAL ORIENTATION OF THE SOCIALIST CONSCIOUSNESS
222 CONCLUSION
225 INDEX
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