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Rethinking the Western understanding of the self / Ulrich Steinvorth.
- Title
- Rethinking the Western understanding of the self / Ulrich Steinvorth.
- Author
- Steinvorth, Ulrich
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Request in advance | BD438.5 .S74 2009 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- vii, 222 p.; 23 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The West and the self -- Basics of philosophical psychology. Heideggerian and Cartesian self -- Free will -- Cartesian, Lockean, and Kantian self -- Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality -- The Cartesian self in history. The cause and content of modernity -- The second-stage rationality in history -- Economic rationality -- The Cartesian self in the twentieth century -- Value spheres. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity -- Value spheres defined and the state -- The serving spheres -- Technology -- Utilitarian or Cartesian approach -- The media and the professions -- Science -- Art and religion -- Sport -- Latin and absolute love -- A self-understanding not only for the West. Is the core idea of modernity realizable at all? -- Harnessing extraordinariness -- Cartesian modernity -- The undivided, universally developed individual -- The end of history?
- ISBN
- 9780521762748 (hardback)
- 052176274X (hardback)
- 9780521757072 (pbk.)
- 052175707X (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^2008050508
- OCLC
- 276514991
- SCSB-11534033
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library