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Impossible Individuality
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Author : Gerald N. Izenberg
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 1992-06-03
Impossible Individuality written by Gerald N. Izenberg and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-06-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
Studying major writers and philosophers--Schlegel and Schleiermacher in Germany, Wordsworth in England, and Chateaubriand in France--Gerald Izenberg shows how a combination of political, social, and psychological developments resulted in the modern concept of selfhood. More than a study of one national culture influencing another, this work goes to the heart of kindred intellectual processes in three European countries. Izenberg makes two persuasive and related arguments. The first is that the Romantics developed a new idea of the self as characterized by fundamentally opposing impulses: a drive to assert the authority of the self and expand that authority to absorb the universe, and the contradictory impulse to surrender to a greater idealized entity as the condition of the self's infinity. The second argument seeks to explain these paradoxes historically, showing how romantic individuality emerged as a compromise. Izenberg demonstrates how the Romantics retreated, in part, from a preliminary, radically activist ideal of autonomy they had worked out under the impact of the French Revolution. They had begun by seeing the individual self as the sole source of meaning and authority, but the convergence of crises in their personal lives with the crises of the revolution revealed this ideal as dangerously aggressive and self-aggrandizing. In reaction, the Romantics shifted their absolute claims for the self to the realm of creativity and imagination, and made such claims less dangerous by attributing totality to nature, art, lover, or state, which in return gave that totality back to the self.
Individuality The Impossible Project
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Author : Carlo Strenger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Individuality The Impossible Project written by Carlo Strenger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Individuation (Psychology) categories.
Whilst noting that psychoanalysis is one of the most important voices in present culture to maintain the importance of individuality, the author takes the postmodern view that gender, race, social class, and religion do not define the individual's essence. The book explores some strategies of self-creation and the protest against fate that motivates them. It combines the psychoanalytic idea of the deep self with the postmodern belief that the individual should be free to shape her or his life according to freely chosen values and aesthetic preferences. Drawing on the storytelling modes of Freud, Klein, Winnicott, Lacan and others, the book charts some strategies of self-creation via the stories of five people who sought therapeutic help because their project of self-creation had reached an impasse.
Hegel S Individuality
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Author : Martin Donougho
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-10-02
Hegel S Individuality written by Martin Donougho and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-02 with Philosophy categories.
This book explores an overlooked area in Hegel studies: his use of ‘individuality’ (Individualität). Hegel joined a lively conversation, from Leibniz to Romanticism and beyond, about this novel concept/phenomenon. Successive chapters track Hegel’s engagement, in such texts as the Phenomenology, Encyclopedia, and Aesthetics. Hegel’s system tends to follow a syllogistic logic (universal, particular, singular), but ‘individuality’ departs from the norm. The category enacts a certain pragmatics (as against semantics or syntactics) regarding tacit assumptions at work or implicit terms of address, which requires active participation by a thinking subject charged with discerning individuality (which bars resort to explicit rules). The category reflexively implicates the user even in presuming an objective context. ‘Individuality’ should not be confused with ‘individualism,’ wholly distinct in origin. Moreover, Hegel’s Aesthetics embraces a paradoxical anachronism. Like ‘art’ itself, ‘individuality’ emerged as an essentially modern category, though one transferred to the past and to distant cultures.
Individuality And Mass Democracy
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Author : Alex Zakaras
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2009
Individuality And Mass Democracy written by Alex Zakaras and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Philosophy categories.
Alex Zakaras argues that we must develop an ideal of citizenship suitable for mass society. To do so, he turns to a pair of 19th-century philosophers - John Stuart Mill and Ralph Waldo Emerson - who were among the first to confront the specific challenge of making mass democracy work.
Individuality
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Author : Jorge J. E. Gracia
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 1988-01-31
Individuality written by Jorge J. E. Gracia and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-01-31 with Philosophy categories.
The author begins by distinguishing six fundamental issues on the metaphysics of individuality. He then proceeds to examine the relation among these issues and to demonstrate that ignorance of the interrelationships has caused confusion in philosophy. In spite of the intricacy of the subject matter, the discussion is always clear, the arguments explicitly evaluated, and the solutions original. In addition, Gracia has assembled an array of historical and contemporary information, from Plato to Strawson, that is unavailable elsewhere.
The Edinburgh Lectures On Mental Science
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Author : Thomas Troward
language : en
Publisher: e-artnow
Release Date : 2019-03-24
The Edinburgh Lectures On Mental Science written by Thomas Troward and has been published by e-artnow this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-24 with Self-Help categories.
The purpose of this book is to indicate the Natural Principles governing the relation between Mental Action and Material Conditions, and thus to afford readers an intelligible starting-point for the practical study of the subject of Mental Science. Contents: Spirit and Matter. The Higher Mode of Intelligence Controls the Lower The Unity of the Spirit Subjective and Objective Mind Further Considerations Regarding Subjective and Objective Mind The Law of Growth Receptivity. Reciprocal Action of the Universal and Individual Minds Causes and Conditions Intuition Healing The Will In Touch With Subconscious Mind The Body The Soul The Spirit
Absolute Form Modality Individuality And The Principle Of Philosophy In Kant And Hegel
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Author : Thomas Sören Hoffmann
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-12-15
Absolute Form Modality Individuality And The Principle Of Philosophy In Kant And Hegel written by Thomas Sören Hoffmann and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-12-15 with Philosophy categories.
Highlighting Hegel's conceptual realism Hoffmann focuses on an undervalued move in his dialectic: inversion (μεταβολή). Easily proving completeness for Kant's table of categories, Hoffmann shows how metabolic dialectic substantiates Hegel's claim for his Logic: it is indeed the science of absolute form!
Making The Case
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Author : Robert Leventhal
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2019-11-18
Making The Case written by Robert Leventhal and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-18 with Social Science categories.
One hundred years before Freud’s striking psychoanalytic case-histories, the narrative psychological case-history emerged in the second half of the eighteenth century in Germany as an epistemic genre (Gianna Pomata) that cut across the disciplines of medicine, philosophy, law, psychology, anthropology and literature. It differed significantly from its predecessors in theology, jurisprudence, and medicine. Rather than subsuming the individual under an established classification, moral precept, category, or type, the narrative psychological case-history endeavored to articulate the individual in its very individuality, thereby constructing a ‘self’ in its irreducible singularity. The presentation and analysis of several significant psychological case-histories, their theory and practice, as well as the controversies surrounding their utility, validity, and function for an envisioned ‘science of the soul’ constitutes the core of the book. Close and ‘distant’ (F. Moretti) readings of key texts and figures in the discussion regarding ‘empirical psychology’ (psychologia empirica), experiential psychology (Erfahrungsseelenkunde) and ‘medical psychology’ (medizinische Psychologie) such as Christian Wolff, J.C. Krüger, J.C. Bolton, Ernst Nicolai, J.A. Unzer, J.G. Sulzer, J.G. Herder, Friedrich Schiller, Jacob Friedrich Abel, Marcus Herz, Karl Philipp Moritz, J.C. Reil, Ernst Platner and Immanuel Kant provide the disciplinary, historical-scientific context within which this genre comes to the fore. As the first systematic argument concerning the early history of this genre, my thesis is that the psychological case-history evolved as part of a pastoral apparatus of care, concern, guidance and direction for what it fashioned as the ‘unique’ individual, as the discursive medium in a process by which the soul became a ‘self’. The narrative psychological case-history was in fact a meta-genre that transcended traditional boundaries of history and fiction, medicine and philosophy, psychology and anthropology, and sought, for the first time, to explicitly link the experience, history, memory, fantasy, previous trauma or suffering of a unique individual to illness, deviance, aberration and crime. In a word, it demonstrated, as Freud later said of his own case-histories in Studies on Hysteria, “the intimate relation between the history of suffering and the symptoms of illness” (“die innige Beziehung zwischen Leidensgeschichte und Krankheitssymptome”). This genre not only had a profound and far-reaching effect on the evolution of German and European literature – one thinks of the rich traditions of the Novella and the Fallgeschichte from Goethe, Büchner, R. L Stevenson, Edgar Allen Poe and Chekhov to Kafka and beyond – but in shaping modern literature, the clinical sciences, and even popular culture. The book should therefore be of interest not merely to Germanists, modern European cultural historians, historians of science, and literary historians, but also those interested in the history of medicine and psychology, the origins of psychoanalysis, the history of anthropology, cultural studies, and, more generally, the history of ideas.
The Cambridge Companion To Constant
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Author : Helena Rosenblatt
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2009-04-20
The Cambridge Companion To Constant written by Helena Rosenblatt and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Benjamin Constant is widely regarded as a founding father of modern liberalism. This book presents a collection of interpretive essays on the major aspects of his life and work by a panel of international scholars.
Eternal Individuality
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Author : Sergei O. Prokofieff
language : en
Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing
Release Date : 1992
Eternal Individuality written by Sergei O. Prokofieff and has been published by Temple Lodge Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Literary Criticism categories.
Prokofieff develops and expands Rudolf Steiner's occult research, leading the reader to an understanding of Novalis's crucial future mission amongst humanity, and indicating how this mission receives its form from the roots of its rich karmic past.