Rethinking the Western understanding of the self
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10329777 |
Table of Contents:
- 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?