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Why it is good to be good : ethics, Kohut's self psychology, and modern society / John H. Riker.

Title
Why it is good to be good : ethics, Kohut's self psychology, and modern society / John H. Riker.
Author
Riker, John H., 1943-
Publication
Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, c2010.

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xiii, 177 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Kohut, Heinz
  • Ethics
  • Self psychology
  • Psychology and philosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The moral problem of modernity -- Kohut's theory of the self -- Kohut and the philosophic tradition -- A new metapsychology : Freud, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kohut -- Why it is good to be good -- A self psychological vision of ethical life -- Self psychology and modernity : actualizing self in the age of desire -- Social transformations.
ISBN
  • 9780765707901 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 076570790X (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9780765707925 (electronic)
  • 0765707926 (electronic)
LCCN
^^2010021380
OCLC
637709530
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library