Rethinking the Western understanding of the self

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Main Author: Steinvorth, Ulrich
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Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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245 1 0 |a Rethinking the Western understanding of the self  |h [electronic resource] /  |c Ulrich Steinvorth. 
260 |a Cambridge ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2009. 
300 |a vii, 222 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0 |a 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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