Richard Grego

Mind, Identity, and Agency in Modern Thought

Essays in the History of Ideas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This work brings together essays on the emergence and development of mind, self-identity, and agency as concepts fundamental to our modern conception of the human condition in western civilization. Beginning in the Renaissance, taking shape in the formative ethos of the Enlightenment, and culminating in the post-modern era, these ideas have remained essential to human psychology, social institutions, and moral responsibility in western culture and have defined what it means to be human -or, indeed, to exist at all. They have also shaped the character of philosophy, literature , the arts, sciences, and society in fundamental ways. These essays explore examples of this phenomenon expressed in various modes of intellectual discourse from the dawn of modernity to the present. The topics and disciplines addressed in this collection should be of interest and accessible to any specialist or non-specialist in western cultural history, philosophy, literature, or the social sciences who wishes to reflect on some of the relevant perspectives that they consider.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 76
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 5mm
• Gewicht: 132g
• ISBN-13: 9786139831388
• ISBN-10: 6139831385
• Artikelnr.: 52865142

Autorenporträt

Richard Grego è professore presso il Dipartimento di filosofia e scienze umane del Florida State College. I suoi interessi di ricerca includono la filosofia comparata della metafisica e della mente, la filosofia comparata della scienza, della fisica, della cosmologia e della religione e la storia intellettuale e culturale.