UID:
almafu_9959242885902883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 724 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-16385-4
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0-511-33664-0
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1-281-11296-8
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9786611112967
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0-511-81814-9
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0-511-33838-4
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0-511-33782-5
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0-511-56758-8
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0-511-33729-9
Content:
What is the self? The question has preoccupied people in many times and places, but nowhere more than in the modern West, where it has spawned debates that still resound today. In this 2005 book, Jerrold Seigel provides an original and penetrating narrative of how major Western European thinkers and writers have confronted the self since the time of Descartes, Leibniz, and Locke. From an approach that is at once theoretical and contextual, he examines the way figures in Britain, France, and Germany have understood whether and how far individuals can achieve coherence and consistency in the face of the inner tensions and external pressures that threaten to divide or overwhelm them. He makes clear that recent 'postmodernist' accounts of the self belong firmly to the tradition of Western thinking they have sought to supersede, and provides an open-ended and persuasive alternative to claims that the modern self is typically egocentric or disengaged.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I Introductory; 1 Dimensions and contexts of selfhood; 2 Between ancients and moderns; Part II British modernity; 3 Personal identity and modern selfhood: Locke; 4 Selfcenteredness and sociability: Mandeville and Hume; 5 Adam Smith and modern self-fashioning; Part III Society and selfknowledge: France from Old Regime to Restoration; 6 Sensationalism, reflection, and inner freedom: Condillac and Diderot; 7 Wholeness, withdrawal, and self-revelation: Rousseau
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8 Reflectivity, sense-experience, and the perils of social life: Maine de Biran and ConstantPart III The world and the self in German Idealism; 9 Autonomy, limitation, and the purposiveness of nature: Kant; 10 Homology and Bildung: Herder, Humboldt, and Goethe; 11 The ego and the world: Fichte, Novalis, and Schelling; 12 Universal selfhood: Hegel; Part V Modern visions and illusions; 13 Dejection, insight, and selfmaking: Coleridge and Mill; 14 From cultivated subjectivity to the culte du moi: polarities of self-formation in nineteenth-century France
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15 Society and selfhood reconciled: Janet, Fouillé, and Bergson16 Will, reflection, and self-overcoming Schopenhauer and Nietzsche; 17 Being and transcendence: Heidegger; 18 Deaths and transfigurations of the self: Foucault and Derrida; 19 Epilogue; Notes; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-60554-7
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-84417-7
Language:
English
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