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Self and soul : a defense of ideals /
In a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and worth. Self and Soul is an impassioned effort to defend the values of the S...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2015.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Polemical introduction: The triumph of self
- Ancient ideals. The hero ; The saint ; The thinker
- Ideals in the modern world. Shakespeare and the early modern self ; The poet ; Freud and the ideal self
- Polemical conclusion: In the culture of the counterfeit.