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The idea of the self : thought and experience in western Europe since the seventeenth century /
"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. Jerrold Seigel combines theoretical and contextual approaches to explore the ways key figures have understood whether...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Dimensions and contexts of selfhood
- Between ancients and moderns
- Personal identity and modern selfhood: Locke
- Self-centeredness and sociability: Mandeville and Hume
- Adam Smith and modern self-fashioning
- Sensationalism, reflection, and inner freedom: Condillac and Diderot
- Wholeness, withdrawal, and self-revelation: Rousseau
- Reflectivity, sense-experience, and the perils of social life: Maine de Biran and Constant
- Autonomy, limitation, and the purposiveness of nature: Kant
- Homology and Bildung: Herder, Humboldt, and Goethe
- The ego and the world: Fichte, Novalis, and Schelling
- Universal selfhood: Hegel
- Dejection, insight, and self-making: Coleridge and Mill
- From cultivated subjectivity to the culte du moi: polarities of self-formation in nineteenth-century France
- Society and selfhood reconciled: Janet, Fouillé, and Bergson
- Will, reflection, and self-overcoming: Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
- Being and transcendence: Heidegger
- Deaths and transfigurations of the self: Foucault and Derrida.