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Rousseau's theodicy of self-love : evil, rationality, and the drive for recognition / Frederick Neuhouser.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Neuhouser, Frederick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778.
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.
- Self-acceptance.
- Self-esteem.
- Pride and vanity.
- Good and evil.
- Recognition (Psychology).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 279 pages)
- Other Title:
- Evil, rationality, and the drive for recognition
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau revolutionized our understanding of ourselves with his brilliant investigation of amour propre - the passion that drives humans to seek the esteem, approval admiration, or love - the recognition - of their fellow beings.
- Contents:
- The nature of amour-propre
- The dangers of amour-propre
- The varieties of inflamed amour-propre
- Why inflamed amour-propre is so common
- Social and domestic remedies
- The standpoint of reason
- Amour-propre's role in forming rational subjects.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-274) and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-161555-2
- 0-19-959205-5
- 1-281-77015-9
- 9786611770150
- 0-19-156221-1
- OCLC:
- 728267376
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