LEADER 03544nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910812091303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-19388-5 010 $a1-139-17525-4 010 $a0-511-65106-6 010 $a0-511-59302-3 010 $a0-511-59209-4 010 $a0-511-59495-X 035 $a(CKB)1000000000784272 035 $a(EBL)452031 035 $a(OCoLC)609843121 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000342401 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11247799 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000342401 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10285076 035 $a(PQKB)11351509 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781139175258 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC452031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL452031 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10329777 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL239303 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000784272 100 $a20081124d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aRethinking the Western understanding of the self /$fUlrich Steinvorth 210 $aCambridge ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 222 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016). 311 $a0-521-75707-X 311 $a0-521-76274-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aThe 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? 330 $aUlrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism - one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West - became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters. 606 $aSelf (Philosophy)$zEurope 615 0$aSelf (Philosophy) 676 $a126.09 700 $aSteinvorth$b Ulrich$0152105 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812091303321 996 $aRethinking the Western understanding of the self$93918367 997 $aUNINA