Rethinking the Western understanding of the self / Ulrich Steinvorth.
By: Steinvorth, Ulrich
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TextPublisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009Description: vii, 222 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780521762748 (hardback); 9780521757072 (pbk.)Subject(s): Descartes, René, 1596-1650
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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?
Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking.
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