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English
Pages
230

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Cover of: Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self
Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self
2012, Cambridge University Press
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Cover of: Rethinking the Western understanding of the self
Rethinking the Western understanding of the self
2009, Cambridge University Press
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Table of Contents

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 20th 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 other professions
Science
Art and religion
Sport
Latin and absolute love
A self-understanding not only for the West
Liberty and equality
Harnessing extraordinariness
Cartesian modernity
The undivided universally developed individual
The end of history?.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cambridge, UK, New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
126.09
Library of Congress
BD438.5 .S74 2009, BD438.5.S74 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
230

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22691418M
Internet Archive
rethinkingwester00stei
ISBN 13
9780521762748, 9780521757072
LCCN
2008050508
OCLC/WorldCat
276514991

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