The Psychology of Inequality : : Rousseau's "Amour-Propre" / / Michael Locke McLendon.
In The Psychology of Inequality, Michael Locke McLendon looks to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought for insight into the personal and social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies. He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion of self-love, or amour-propr...
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McLendon, Michael Locke, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Psychology of Inequality : Rousseau's "Amour-Propre" / Michael Locke McLendon. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2018] ©2019 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Haney Foundation Series Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Being Aristos and the Politics of Aristocracy -- Chapter 2. Amor Sui and Amour- Propre in Augustine and Neo- Augustinianism: Surrogate Virtue or Gateway to Libido Dominandi? -- Chapter 3. Amour- Propre in Rousseau: Subverting the Aristocratic Personality -- Chapter 4. Tocqueville’s Liberal Reply -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In The Psychology of Inequality, Michael Locke McLendon looks to Jean-Jacques Rousseau's thought for insight into the personal and social pathologies that plague commercial and democratic societies. He emphasizes the way Rousseau appropriated and modified the notion of self-love, or amour-propre, found in Augustine and various early modern thinkers. McLendon traces the concept in Rousseau's work and reveals it to be a form of selfish vanity that mimics aspects of Homeric honor culture and, in the modern world, shapes the outlook of the wealthy and powerful as well as the underlying assumptions of meritocratic ideals.According to McLendon, Rousseau's elucidation of amour-propre describes a desire for glory and preeminence that can be dangerously antisocial, as those who believe themselves superior derive pleasure from dominating and even harming those they consider beneath them. Drawing on Rousseau's insights, McLendon asserts that certain forms of inequality, especially those associated with classical aristocracy and modern-day meritocracy, can corrupt the mindsets and personalities of people in socially disruptive ways.The Psychology of Inequality shows how amour-propre can be transformed into the demand for praise, whether or not one displays praiseworthy qualities, and demonstrates the ways in which this pathology continues to play a leading role in the psychology and politics of modern liberal democracies. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021) Equality Psychological aspects. Liberalism Psychological aspects. Political psychology History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. bisacsh Cultural Studies. Literature. Philosophy. Political Science. Public Policy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics and Social Sciences 2018 English 9783110604016 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2018 9783110603231 ZDB-23-DSW Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn Press eBook Frontlist Package 2019 9783110652055 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812295733 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812295733 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780812295733.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Being Aristos and the Politics of Aristocracy -- Chapter 2. Amor Sui and Amour- Propre in Augustine and Neo- Augustinianism: Surrogate Virtue or Gateway to Libido Dominandi? -- Chapter 3. Amour- Propre in Rousseau: Subverting the Aristocratic Personality -- Chapter 4. Tocqueville’s Liberal Reply -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments |
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