The Politics of Authenticity: Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society - Couverture souple

Berman, Marshall

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1844674401 ISBN 13 : 9781844674404

Editeur : Verso Books, 2009

Synopsis

In this acclaimed exploration of the search for “authentic” individual identity, Marshall Berman explores the historical experiences and needs out of which this new radicalism arose. Focussing on eighteenth-century Paris, a time and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity—of a self that could organize the individual’s energy and direct it toward his own happiness—articulated eighteenth-century man’s deepest responses to this brave new world, and his most ardent hope for a new life in it. Exploring in particular the ideas of Montesquieu and Rousseau, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticity was radically opposed to the bourgeois, capitalistic idea of “self-interest.”

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

MARSHALL BERMAN is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at City College of New York and the CUNY Graduate Center. His books include All that Is Solid Melts into Air and, most recently, On the Town: One Hundred Years of Spectacle in Times Square.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso Books
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1844674401
• ISBN 13: 9781844674404
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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