Modernity's Wager: Authority, the Self, and Transcendence

Princeton University Press (2003)
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In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own ...

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9780691116365   0691116369   0691050619   9781400824694   9780691050614

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10.1515/9781400824694
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Bibliography.Adam B. Seligman
Chapter four. The self internalized.Adam B. Seligman
Chapter five. Tolerance and tradition.Adam B. Seligman
Chapter one. The self in the social sciences.Adam B. Seligman
Chapter two. Authority and the self.Adam B. Seligman
Chapter three. Heteronomy and responsibility.Adam B. Seligman
Introduction.Adam B. Seligman
Index.Adam B. Seligman
Notes.Adam B. Seligman
Preface and Acknowledgments.Adam B. Seligman

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