Rethinking the Western understanding of the self
By: Ulrich Steinvorth.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521762748; 9780521757072
Subjects: Descartes, René, -- 1596-1650; Self (Philosophy) -- Europe
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The West and the self; title: Basics of philosophical psychology; title: Heideggerian and Cartesian self; title: Free will; title: Cartesian,Lockean and Kantian self; title: Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality; title: The Cartesian self in history; title: The cause and content of modernity; title: The second-stage rationality in history; title: Economic rationality; title: The Cartesian self in the 20th century; title: Value spheres; title: A diagnosis and therapy for modernity; title: Value spheres defined and the state; title: The serving spheres; title: Technology; title: Utilitarian or Cartesian approach; title: The media and other professions; title: Science; title: Art and religion; title: Sport; title: Latin and absolute love; title: A self-understanding not only for the West; title: Liberty and equality; title: Harnessing extraordinariness; title: Cartesian modernity; title: The undivided universally developed individual; title: The end of history?.