Rethinking the Western understanding of the self /
Steinvorth, Ulrich.
Rethinking the Western understanding of the self / Ulrich Steinvorth. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - vii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
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Descartes, Ren�e, 1596-1650.
Self (Philosophy)--Europe.
BD438.5 / .S74 2009
Rethinking the Western understanding of the self / Ulrich Steinvorth. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - vii, 222 p. ; 23 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?
9780521762748 (hardback) 9780521757072 (pbk.)
2008050508
GBA944682 bnb
015175062 Uk
Descartes, Ren�e, 1596-1650.
Self (Philosophy)--Europe.
BD438.5 / .S74 2009
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