الكاتب: Prof. Jaliluddin Ahmad Khan

The present article intends to examine some of the main intellectual tendencies which . seem to characterise the cultural milieu of the contemporary civilization of the West. l The burden of its argument is that' the ideological conflict of the present day world,2 while apparently pertaining to a life and death struggle of incompatible opposites, is, nevertheless, unified in its materialistic outlook on life. In fact, it is this fundamental agreement of a world-view which in itself is responSible for the character of this life and death struggle. Irrespective of the'suicidal consequences of this conflict, this article tries to point out that this materialistic outlook on life is not just a piece of untoward accident