TY  - BOOK
AU  - Steinvorth,Ulrich
TI  - Rethinking the Western understanding of the self
SN  - 9780521762748
AV  - BD438 S818 R 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Descartes, René,
KW  - Self (Philosophy)
KW  - Europe
N1  - 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
ER  -