MANAS Journal

MANAS was a small-circulation philosophical journal published from 1948 through December 1988. It was written, edited, and published by Henry Geiger, making it an unusually concentrated editorial project rather than a conventional magazine operation with a large institutional staff. The publication used a compact eight-page format and appeared fortnightly. Its subject matter centered on philosophical reflection about the human condition, with particular attention to ethical responsibility, environmental concerns, and the relationship between people, society, and the wider world. The journal's perspective was global and interdisciplinary. Rather than functioning primarily as a news publication, MANAS presented short essays and reflections intended to encourage moral inquiry and independent thought. Its coverage connected philosophical questions with social criticism, ecological awareness, economics, and religious or spiritual traditions. This orientation placed it within the postwar tradition of independent journals that treated public issues through ethical and civilizational analysis rather than through daily political reporting. MANAS is also associated with the circulation of ideas that later became influential in ecological, alternative-economics, and spiritually informed social thought. One notable example was the publication of E. F. Schumacher's essay on Buddhist economics. The appearance of this work in MANAS helped identify the journal with discussions of economics grounded in human scale, moral purpose, and social responsibility, although the available reference material does not specify the issue date or publication details. The journal continued for four decades under Geiger's direction and ended in December 1988. No evidence in the supplied sources establishes a corporate parent, public listing, successor brand, or continuing commercial publication. Its surviving issues are available online through external archival resources referenced by the Wikipedia article, allowing the publication to remain accessible as a historical record of twentieth-century philosophical and ethical writing.

MANAS began publication in 1948 as a philosophical periodical led by Henry Geiger. Geiger wrote, edited, and published the journal himself, giving the publication a distinctive single-editorial-author character. The available reference describes MANAS as an eight-page fortnightly rather than a mass-market magazine or a large-format academic review. Its editorial purpose was to examine questions concerning the human condition. Issues typically assembled several short essays rather than presenting a single long feature or a conventional news package. The journal's themes included ethics, environmental concerns, global perspectives, and the broader relationship between individual conduct and social life. This combination of philosophical writing and public-interest reflection made MANAS a forum for considering moral dimensions of contemporary problems. The publication's outlook was broad and international in scope. Its essays treated environmental and ethical questions as interconnected matters rather than as isolated specialist subjects. The journal also engaged with alternative approaches to economics and social organization. A significant example was its publication of E. F. Schumacher's influential essay on Buddhist economics. The reference material does not identify the issue in which the essay appeared, but its inclusion reflects MANAS's interest in economic ideas shaped by moral, spiritual, and human-centered considerations. MANAS remained in publication for approximately four decades. It continued under Geiger's direction until December 1988, when the journal ceased publication. The supplied sources do not document a successor publication, a corporate owner, a formal publishing house, circulation figures, or a later commercial revival. They do, however, point to online availability of all MANAS issues through archival resources, including material associated with the Schumacher Society. These archives preserve the journal as a body of twentieth-century philosophical and ethical writing. Because the available documentation is limited, many operational details remain unconfirmed. The journal's exact place of publication, subscription scale, distribution network, staff beyond Geiger, and precise publication chronology are not established by the supplied references. What is documented is the central identity of MANAS: an independent eight-page philosophical fortnightly, written, edited, and published by Henry Geiger from 1948 through December 1988, with recurring attention to global ethics, environmental responsibility, and humane alternatives in social and economic thought.

• 1988

  Publication ends

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  MANAS continues under Henry Geiger until December 1988, when publication ends.

• 1948

  MANAS begins publication

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  Henry Geiger begins publishing MANAS as an eight-page philosophical periodical.

• Publication of E. F. Schumacher's Buddhist economics essay

  [1]MANAS (journal)en.wikipedia.org

  MANAS publishes an influential essay by E. F. Schumacher on Buddhist economics. The available reference does not provide the publication year or issue number.

An independent, reflective philosophical publication focused on ethical, environmental, social, and global questions.

• Philosophical journal · 1948

  MANAS

  An eight-page philosophical fortnightly written, edited, and published by Henry Geiger. Its issues generally contained several short essays addressing the human condition, ethical questions, environmental concerns, global perspectives, and socially or spiritually informed approaches to economics and public life. The publication ran from 1948 until December 1988.

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