The politics of authenticity
radical individualism and the emergence of modern society
New ed.
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Word Count
81,250 words, Guess
Page Count
325 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivepoliticsofauthen0000berm
- ISBN-10184467441X
- ISBN-101844674401
- ISBN-139781844674411
- ISBN-139781844674404
and 6 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2009502498
- OCLC Control Number317919924
- OCLC Control Number969059955
- Better World Books9781844674404
- Better World Books9781844674411
- Open LibraryOL24551563M
Classifications
- DDC320.512
- LCCB824 .B47 2009
- LCCB824.B47 2009
and 1 more
- LCCJC571 .B476 2009
Description
"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'"--Page 4 of cover.
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