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UNINA9910451738103321 |
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Autore |
Midgley Mary <1919-2018, > |
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The solitary self : Darwin and the selfish gene / / Mary Midgley |
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London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2014 |
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1-317-48824-5 |
1-315-71020-X |
1-280-12013-4 |
9786613524027 |
1-84465-483-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (161 p.) |
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Philosophy |
Philosophy & Religion |
Ethics |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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First published 2010 by Acumen. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-147) and index. |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Introduction; 1. Pseudo-Darwinism and social atomism; 2. The background: egoism from Hobbes to R. D. Laing; 3. The natural springs of morality; 4. Coming to terms with reason; 5. Darwin's new broom; 6. The self's strange adventures; Conclusion: the wider perspective; Bibliography; Index |
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Renowned philosopher Mary Midgley explores the nature of our moral constitution to challenge the view that reduces human motivation to self-interest. Midgley argues cogently and convincingly that simple, one-sided accounts of human motives, such as the 'selfish gene' tendency in recent neo-Darwinian thought, may be illuminating but are always unrealistic. Such neatness, she shows, cannot be imposed on human psychology. She returns to Darwin's original writings to show how the reductive individualism which is now presented as Darwinism does not derive from Darwin but from a wider, Hobbesian tra |
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UNINA9910809533903321 |
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Autore |
Conn Steven |
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Americans against the city : anti-urbanism in the twentieth century / / Steven Conn |
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New York : , : Oxford University Press, , 2014 |
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0-19-997368-7 |
0-19-997367-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (393 p.) |
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Urban renewal - United States - History |
Urbanization - United States - History |
Decentralization in government - United States - History |
Urbanization |
Decentralization in government - United States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Cover; Americans Against the City; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The American Urban Paradox; 1 Anti-Urbanism: An American Tradition; 2 America's Urban Moment Arrives; 3 The Center Should Not Hold: Decentralizing the City in the 1920's and '30s; 4 New Deal, New Towns: The Anti-Urban New Deal; 5 Looking for Alternatives to the City: The Past and the Folk; 6 The Center Did Not Hold: The City in the Age of Urban Renewal; 7 The Triumph of the Decentralized City; 8 Small Town, New Town, Commune; 9 New Communities, New Urbanisms; Afterword: Urbanism as a Way of Life |
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It is a paradox of American life that we are a highly urbanized nation filled with people deeply ambivalent about urban life. An aversion to urban density and all that it contributes to urban life, and a perception that the city was the place where ""big government"" first took root in America fostered what historian Steven Conn terms the ""anti-urban impulse."" In response, anti-urbanists called for the decentralization of the city, and rejected the role of government in American life in favor of |
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a return to the pioneer virtues of independence and self-sufficiency. In this provocative... |
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