I. PROPER PRIDE -- 1. Why pride? Theses -- 2.The meaning of the term pride -- 3. Pride and metaphysics -- 4. Augustine on due pride -- 5. Kierkegaard on due pride -- II. HISTORY AND ITS CHALLENGES -- 6. The Renaissance interest in doing things for their own sake -- 7. Intrinsic goals -- 8. Passion and professionalism -- 9. The bourgeois revolution and bourgeois authenticity -- 10. Rousseau's authenticity -- 11. Marx, Weber, and mere subjectivity -- 12. Heidegger's authenticity -- 13. Authenticity in contemporary discussion -- 14. Authenticity in China -- 15. Rethinking secularization, liberalism, and religion -- III. MORALITY AND THE SELF -- 16. What are morality and moral theory? -- 17. Shame and pride -- 18. Korsgaard and self-constituters vs. self-discoverers -- 19. Kant, free will and the self -- 20. Inheritance pride, authenticity, and morality -- IV. PROSPECTS OF PROPER PRIDE -- 21. Technology and society -- 22. Problems of the economy -- 23. Basic income -- 24. The shrinking of the nation states -- 25. Data processing and liberty -- 26. Data processing in novels -- 27. Competitors in metaphysics -- 28. Kitsch, tragedy, and power -- 29. Prospects, bleak and less bleak -- Instead of a conclusion -- Select Bibliography -- Index.