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Organization Man. Here, with good reason, the author grows vehe–
ment and polemical. It is difficult to remain even-tempered when
regarding the tyranny of applied psychology over the American business
community. Yet, as I have implied, Whyte's is no simple-minded work
of protest. Puritanism had a moral theology that left open the possibility
of purchasing Christ with money; against this possibility, which opened
into a secular and sensual culture, the great divines of New England
thundered futilely. The Organization Man has a moral psychology,
wrapped inside the flag of science, against which the moral critics of
our time may thunder with equal futility. Whyte senses this futility
of moralizing with the system. He does not recommend that his readers
fight the application of psychology directly. Instead, he offers some
lessons in how to deprive this pseudo-science, not of its capacity to label
us, but of its capacity to persuade us that its labels are true.
Industrial psychology represents the supreme ambition of modern
science: it carries technology into the inner world, to transform and
control it as the outer world can now be transformed and controlled.
What the American once did to the wilderness of physical nature, he
now moves to do to the tameness of his human nature. The pursuit of
power is an integral part of the American's creed, informing his pursuit
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY SUMMER SCHOOL
INSTITUTE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Evaluation of the relative worth and possible permanence of
the best in American literature during the past half century
THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION
Herbert Gold, M.A., Writers' Workshop, Iowa State University
POETRY
J.
V. Cunningham, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English, Brandeis University
READINGS IN MODERN CRITICISM IN ENGLISH
Allen Tate, Ph.D., Professor of English, University of Minnesota
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