The psychology of inequality : Rousseau's amour-propre /

Michael Locke McLendon looks to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought for insight into the personal and social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies. He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion of self-love, or amour-propre, found in Augustine and various...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: McLendon, Michael Locke, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2019]
Series:Haney Foundation series.
Subjects:
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, > 1712-1778. > Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes.
Discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes (Rousseau, Jean-Jacques)
Equality > Psychological aspects.
Liberalism > Psychological aspects.
Political psychology > History.
Libéralisme > Aspect psychologique.
Psychologie politique > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Government > National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > History & Theory.
Political psychology.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. Being Aristos and the Politics of Aristocracy; Chapter 2. Amor Sui and Amour-Propre in Augustine and Neo-Augustinianism: Surrogate Virtue or Gateway to Libido Dominandi?; Chapter 3. Amour-Propre in Rousseau: Subverting the Aristocratic Personality; Chapter 4. Tocqueville's Liberal Reply; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Acknowledgments

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