TY - BOOK AU - Gardner,John W. TI - Self-renewal: the individual and the innovative society AV - HM 101 G174 1964 PY - 1964/// CY - New York PB - Harper & Row, Publishers KW - PROGRESS KW - SELF CONCEPT N1 - Includes index; 1. GROWTH, DECAY AND RENEWAL : The ever-renewing system something old, something new -- 2 SELF-RENEWAL : Do-it-yourself Jailbirds -- Self-development -- Self-knowledge -- Courage to fail -- Love -- Motivation -- 3. VERSATILITY : Educating for renewal -- Generalist and specialists -- 4. INNOVATION : Something new under the sun -- Creativity -- The revolutionary -- 5. TYRANNY WITHOUT A TYRANT : The tyranny of hte formula -- Organizing for freedom - 7. CONDITIONS OF RENEWAL : Deadwood and seedbeds -- Protecting dissenters -- 8. ORGANIZING FOR RENEWAL : Systematic innovation -- Filtered experience -- Massiveness and immobility -- New organizational forms -- 9. INDIVIDUALITY AND ITS LIMITS : Estrangement for all -- Escape from what? -- The nature of our task -- 10. COMMITMENT AND MEANING : Individual commitment -- Hunger for meaning -- Meaning, purpose and commitment -- 11. ATTITUDES TOWARD THE FUTURE : Onward and upward? -- Optimism and pessimism -- Fashionable pessimism -- Exuberance reappraised -- 12. MORAL DECAY AND RENEWAL : The consensus in a free society -- The point a moral -- The drying reservoir ER -