01558cam a2200229 a 4500 081124s2009 enk b 001 0 eng 9780521762748 9780521757072 SDU BD438 S818 R 2009 Steinvorth, Ulrich. 219340 Rethinking the Western understanding of the self / Ulrich Steinvorth. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. vii, 222 p. 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? HKBU library YT2025 M10 Descartes, René, 1596-1650. Self (Philosophy) Europe. 219341 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 112436 112436 0 0 lcc 0 BD0438 S818 R2009 0 CGB 284814 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-10-17 2 0 BD438 S818 R 2009 1000375531 2025-10-17 00:00:00 C.1 2025-10-17 GBE