Studying national characters
Subtitle: scholars: García, Madariaga, Tocqueville, Bennassar, Barzini, Huizinga, Triandis, Therivel : nationalities: English, American, French, Spanish, German, Netherlanders, Japanese, individualists versus collectivists, visitors versus insulars
By: William A. Therivel
Publisher: Kirk House Publishers
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781933794709
Subjects: National characteristics; Philosophy; Nationalism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Garcia's contrast of French and Spanish characters; title: Madariaga on the English [fair play i.e. action], on the French [droiti.e. thought] and on the Spaniards [honor i.e. passion]; title: On the English, Madariaga should have stayed with fair play; title: On the the French, Madariaga should have stayed with droit; title: On the Spaniards, Madariaga should have stayed with honor (in reality honra); title: Barzini's mutable Germans explained; title: Therivel's visitors vs. insulars explained; title: Triandis' individualism vs. collectivism explained by answering Hamamura's two questions; title: Huizinga on the French and Netherlanders; title: in the waning of the Middle Ages; title: compared with the Italians of the early Renaissance; title: The eight scholars.