TY - BOOK AU - Steinvorth,Ulrich ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Rethinking the Western understanding of the self AV - BD438.5 .S74 2009eb U1 - 126.09 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge, New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Descartes, René, KW - Self (Philosophy) KW - Europe KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10329777 ER -