This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition and offers biographical and theoretical vignettes of all the major Western scholars. By scrutinizing the classical texts of the Western tradition, he succeeds in delineating the differing conceptions of the human individual which emerge from these writings, and gives a guide to the most important ideas in Western cultural traditions.…mehr
This is a comprehensive study of the varying conceptions of the human subject in the Western intellectual tradition. Although informed by an anthropological perspective, the author draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition and offers biographical and theoretical vignettes of all the major Western scholars. By scrutinizing the classical texts of the Western tradition, he succeeds in delineating the differing conceptions of the human individual which emerge from these writings, and gives a guide to the most important ideas in Western cultural traditions.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Brian Morris Emeritus Professor of Anthropology,Goldsmiths College, University of London
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1 Mechanistic philosophy and the human subject: Descartes mechanistic materialism Spinoza and Leibniz the empiricist tradition the Kantian synthesis. Part 2 The psychology of the will: Schopenhauer Nietzsche and the will to power Freud - his life and work libido and the unconscious. Part 3 The varieties of empiricism: Darwin and evolution behaviourism Skinner and operant conditioning Wittgenstein and philosophical behaviourism sociobiology. Part 4 Culture and psychology - neo-Kantian perspectives: Silthey and the neo-Kantian school Wundt and the Libnizian tradition cultural anthropology patterns of culture Margaret Mead. Part 5 The Hegelian-Marxist tradition: Hegel's phenomenology of spirit historical materialism Lukacs Marxist psychology. Part 6 The sociological tradition: positive philosophy Durkheim - his life and work the dualism of human nature Durkheimian perspectives holism and individualism. Part 7 Pragmatism and symbolic interaction: pragmatism and William James the principles of psychology Dewey's empirical naturalism mind, self and society Erving Goffman. Part 8 Critical theory and psychoanalysis: the Frankfurt school Hegelian Marxism Eros and civilization knowledge and human interests. Part 9 Phenomenology and existentialism: the background to existentialist phenomenology the phenomenology of consciousmess Merleau-Ponty. Part 10 Structuralism and Levi-Strauss: Piager's genetic structuralism structural Marxism the archaeology of knowledge power and the human subject post structuralism.
Part 1 Mechanistic philosophy and the human subject: Descartes mechanistic materialism Spinoza and Leibniz the empiricist tradition the Kantian synthesis. Part 2 The psychology of the will: Schopenhauer Nietzsche and the will to power Freud - his life and work libido and the unconscious. Part 3 The varieties of empiricism: Darwin and evolution behaviourism Skinner and operant conditioning Wittgenstein and philosophical behaviourism sociobiology. Part 4 Culture and psychology - neo-Kantian perspectives: Silthey and the neo-Kantian school Wundt and the Libnizian tradition cultural anthropology patterns of culture Margaret Mead. Part 5 The Hegelian-Marxist tradition: Hegel's phenomenology of spirit historical materialism Lukacs Marxist psychology. Part 6 The sociological tradition: positive philosophy Durkheim - his life and work the dualism of human nature Durkheimian perspectives holism and individualism. Part 7 Pragmatism and symbolic interaction: pragmatism and William James the principles of psychology Dewey's empirical naturalism mind, self and society Erving Goffman. Part 8 Critical theory and psychoanalysis: the Frankfurt school Hegelian Marxism Eros and civilization knowledge and human interests. Part 9 Phenomenology and existentialism: the background to existentialist phenomenology the phenomenology of consciousmess Merleau-Ponty. Part 10 Structuralism and Levi-Strauss: Piager's genetic structuralism structural Marxism the archaeology of knowledge power and the human subject post structuralism.
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