Related Books

The Origins of European Individualism
Language: en
Pages: 292
Authors: Aaron Gurevich
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995-11-15 - Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The development of modern Europe, through such events as the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, the Enlightenment, the French Revolution, and the rise of indu
The Origins of the Individualist Self
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Michael Mascuch
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1997-03-06 - Publisher: Polity

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book traces the emergence of the concept of self-identity in modern Western culture, as it was both reflected in and advanced by the development of autobio
The Tyranny of the Moderns
Language: en
Pages: 224
Authors: Nadia Urbinati
Categories: Political Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-01-28 - Publisher: Yale University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In a well-reasoned and thought-provoking polemic, respected political theorist Nadia Urbinati explores a profound shift in the ideology of individualism, from t
Inventing the Individual
Language: en
Pages: 443
Authors: Larry Siedentop
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-20 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Here, in a grand narrative spanning 1,800 years of European history, a distinguished political philosopher firmly rejects Western liberalism’s usual account o
Impossible Individuality
Language: en
Pages: 367
Authors: Gerald N. Izenberg
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1992-06-03 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a