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Rethinking the Western understanding of the self /

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Title Proper

Rethinking the Western understanding of the self /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ulrich Steinvorth.

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

New York :

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Cambridge University Press,

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2009.

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

1 online resource (vii, 222 pages)

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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?

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Ulrich Steinvorth offers a fresh analysis and critique of rationality as a defining element in Western thinking. Steinvorth argues that Descartes' understanding of the self offers a more plausible and realistic alternative to the prevailing understanding of the self formed by the Lockean conception and utilitarianism. When freed from Cartesian dualism, such a conceptualization enables us to distinguish between self and subject. Moreover, it enables us to understand why individualism - one of the hallmarks of modernity in the West - became a universal ideal to be granted to every member of society; how acceptance of this notion could peak in the seventeenth century; and why it is now in decline, though not irreversibly so. Most importantly, the Cartesian concept of the self presents a way of saving modernity from the dangers that it now encounters.

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239303

Title

Rethinking the Western understanding of the self.

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9780521762748

Descartes, René,1596-1650.

Descartes, René,1596-1650.

Self (Philosophy)-- Europe.

Jaget-- teori, filosofi.

Philosophische Psychologie.

Philosophische Psychologie.

PHILOSOPHY-- Mind & Body.

PSYCHOLOGY-- Personality.

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Selbst.

Selbsterkenntnis.

Selbsterkenntnis.

Self (Philosophy)

Europe.

Westliche Welt.

Westliche Welt.

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PSY-- 023000

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Steinvorth, Ulrich.

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