Creating the "new man" : from Enlightenment ideals to socialist realities /
He idea of eliminating undesirable elements from human nature to create a "new man" has been part of moral and political thinking worldwide for millennia. During the Enlightenment, European philosophers sought to construct an ideological framework for reshaping human nature. But it was onl...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawai'i Press,
©2009.
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Colección: | Perspectives on the global past.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- From the Enlightenment to the Soviet new man
- "Be Mao's good soldiers" : creating the new man in China
- "Let them all become Che" : creating the new man in Cuba
- The global impact of the communist new man
- Conclusion.