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The self in social theory : a psychoanalytic account of its construction in Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls, and Rousseau

Title
The self in social theory : a psychoanalytic account of its construction in Plato, Hobbes, Locke, Rawls, and Rousseau / C. Fred Alford.
Author
Alford, C. Fred.
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1991.

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Book/TextUse in library BD450 .A459 1991Off-site

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Description
viii, 229 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • Self (Philosophy) > History
  • Social sciences > Philosophy > History
  • Social sciences and psychoanalysis
  • Psychoanalysis and philosophy
  • Self psychology
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Self Psychology
  • philosophical anthropology
  • Philosophical anthropology
  • Psychoanalysis and philosophy
  • Self (Philosophy)
  • Self psychology
  • Social sciences and psychoanalysis
  • Social sciences > Philosophy
  • Geschichte
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Selbst
  • Sozialphilosophie
  • Zelf
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Filosofie
  • Sociale wetenschappen
  • Self > Psychological aspects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Metaphysical selves, real selves -- A psychoanalytic account of the self : Kohut as decentered by Lacan -- The pre-history of the self : the psyche from Homer to Plato's Gorgias -- The psyche divided against itself : the Republic, Timaeus, and Phadrus -- Hobbes and the archaic self -- Locke and the self held hostage -- Rawls : justice as fearfulness -- Rousseau : political theory in defense of self-esteem -- The self and its discontents
ISBN
  • 0300049226
  • 9780300049220
LCCN
90039887
OCLC
  • ocm21876349
  • 21876349
  • SCSB-1910079
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library