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Autore: |
Steinvorth Ulrich
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Titolo: |
Rethinking the Western understanding of the self / / Ulrich Steinvorth
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2009 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (vii, 222 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 126.09 |
Soggetto topico: | Self (Philosophy) - Europe |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Feb 2016). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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? |
Sommario/riassunto: | Ulrich 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Rethinking the Western understanding of the self ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-107-19388-5 |
1-139-17525-4 | |
0-511-65106-6 | |
0-511-59302-3 | |
0-511-59209-4 | |
0-511-59495-X | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910812091303321 |
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