Why it is good to be good : ethics, Kohut's self psychology, and modern society / / John H. Riker.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Riker, John H., 1943-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xiii, 177 p.

Table of Contents

• The moral problem of modernity
• Kohut's theory of the self
• Kohut and the philosophic tradition
• A new metapsychology : Freud, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kohut
• Why it is good to be good
• A self psychological vision of ethical life
• Self psychology and modernity : actualizing self in the age of desire
• Social transformations.