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

Berman, Marshall

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 184467441X ISBN 13 : 9781844674411

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 ime and place in which a distinctively modern form of society was just coming into its own, Berman shows how the ideal of authenticityof a self that could organize the individuals energy and direct it toward his own happinessarticulated eighteenth-century mans 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: 184467441X
• ISBN 13: 9781844674411
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 325
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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