Brian Morris

Western Conceptions of the Individual (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040279717
• Artikelnr.: 72279794

Autorenporträt

Brian Morris Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,Goldsmiths College, University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Mechanistic philosophy and the human subject: Descartes
mechanistic materialism
Spinoza and Leibniz
the empiricist tradition
the Kantian synthesis. Part 2 The psychology of the will: Schopenhauer
Nietzsche and the will to power
Freud - his life and work
libido and the unconscious. Part 3 The varieties of empiricism: Darwin and evolution
behaviourism
Skinner and operant conditioning
Wittgenstein and philosophical behaviourism
sociobiology. Part 4 Culture and psychology - neo-Kantian perspectives: Silthey and the neo-Kantian school
Wundt and the Libnizian tradition
cultural anthropology
patterns of culture
Margaret Mead. Part 5 The Hegelian-Marxist tradition: Hegel's phenomenology of spirit
historical materialism
Lukacs
Marxist psychology. Part 6 The sociological tradition: positive philosophy
Durkheim - his life and work
the dualism of human nature
Durkheimian perspectives
holism and individualism. Part 7 Pragmatism and symbolic interaction: pragmatism and William James
the principles of psychology
Dewey's empirical naturalism
mind, self and society
Erving Goffman. Part 8 Critical theory and psychoanalysis: the Frankfurt school
Hegelian Marxism
Eros and civilization
knowledge and human interests. Part 9 Phenomenology and existentialism: the background to existentialist phenomenology
the phenomenology of consciousmess
Merleau-Ponty. Part 10 Structuralism and Levi-Strauss: Piager's genetic structuralism
structural Marxism
the archaeology of knowledge
power and the human subject
post structuralism.