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050 00 $aBD438.5$b.S74 2009
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100 1 $aSteinvorth, Ulrich.
245 10 $aRethinking the Western understanding of the self /$cUlrich Steinvorth.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2009.
300 $avii, 222 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aThe West and the self -- Basics of philosophical psychology. Heideggerian and Cartesian self -- Free will -- Cartesian, Lockean, and Kantian self -- Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality -- The Cartesian self in history. The cause and content of modernity -- The second-stage rationality in history -- Economic rationality -- The Cartesian self in the twentieth century -- Value spheres. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity -- Value spheres defined and the state -- The serving spheres -- Technology -- Utilitarian or Cartesian approach -- The media and the professions -- Science -- Art and religion -- Sport -- Latin and absolute love -- A self-understanding not only for the West. Is the core idea of modernity realizable at all? -- Harnessing extraordinariness -- Cartesian modernity -- The undivided, universally developed individual -- The end of history?
650 0 $aSelf (Philosophy)$zEurope.
600 10 $aDescartes, René,$d1596-1650.