Self and Soul : : A Defense of Ideals /

Self and Soul : : A Defense of Ideals / / Mark Edmundson.

An ARTery Best Book of the Year An Art of Manliness Best Book of the Year In a culture that has become progressively more skeptical and materialistic, the desires of the individual self stand supreme, Mark Edmundson says. We spare little thought for the great ideals that once gave life meaning and w...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Edmundson, Mark,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Main Sources Cited in the Text
  • Polemical Introduction: The Triumph of Self
  • I. Ancient Ideals
  • 1. The Hero
  • 2. The Saint
  • 3. The Thinker
  • II. Ideals in the Modern World
  • 4. Shakespeare and the Early Modern Self
  • 5. The Poet
  • 6. Freud and the Ideal Self
  • Polemical Conclusion: In the Culture of the Counterfeit
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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