Rethinking the Western understanding of the self
Steinvorth, Ulrich.
Rethinking the Western understanding of the self [electronic resource] / Ulrich Steinvorth. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - vii, 222 p.
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?
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA944682 bnb
Uk
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Self (Philosophy)--Europe.
Electronic books.
BD438.5 / .S74 2009eb
126.09
Rethinking the Western understanding of the self [electronic resource] / Ulrich Steinvorth. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - vii, 222 p.
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?
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
GBA944682 bnb
Uk
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.
Self (Philosophy)--Europe.
Electronic books.
BD438.5 / .S74 2009eb
126.09