Western conceptions of the individual / Brian Morris.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morris, Brian, 1936-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Anthropology--Methodology.

Ethnopsychology.

Individualism.

Civilization, Western.

Physical Description:

ix, 505 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Berg : Distributed exclusively in the US and Canada by St. Martin's Press, 1991.

Summary:

This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition and offers biographical and theoretical vignettes of all the major Western scholars. By scrutinizing the classical texts of the Western tradition, he succeeds in delineating the differing conceptions of the human individual which emerge from these writings, and gives a guide to the most important ideas in Western cultural traditions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-497) and index.

ISBN:

0854966986

OCLC:

23383577