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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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Haney Foundation Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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