Politics of Authenticity : Radical Individualism and the Emergence of Modern Society

Berman, Marshall

ISBN 10: 0689702884 / ISBN 13: 9780689702884

Edité par Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, 1972

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Présentation de l'éditeur: 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.”

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : Politics of Authenticity : Radical ...
Éditeur : Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
Date d'édition : 1972
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good