The individual without passions : modern individualism and the loss of the social bond /
The innovative characteristic of the book lies in its tackling the topic of individualism from the original point of view of a theory of passions . It underlines the importance of the problem of the passions both in forming individual identity and building the social bond . It proposes to contrast t...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Italiano |
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Lanham :
Lexington Books,
c2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Abbreviations of the Main Classical Works Quoted in the Text; Chapter One: From the Ethics of Honorto Self-Preservation; Chapter Two: Between Acquisitive Passion and Passion of the Self: Homo Oeconomicus; Chapter Three: The Critique of Acquisitive Individualism and the Search for Authenticity; Chapter Four: The Disappearance of the Passions: Homo Democraticus; Chapter Five: The Passion of Giving and the Communitarian Individual: Homo Reciprocus; Bibliography; Index.