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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Preface and Acknowledgments.  (pages viii-xii)Adam B. Seligman
Introduction.  (pages 1-14)Adam B. Seligman
Chapter one. The self in the social sciences.  (pages 15-33)Adam B. Seligman
Chapter two. Authority and the self.  (pages 34-59)Adam B. Seligman
Chapter three. Heteronomy and responsibility.  (pages 60-86)Adam B. Seligman
Chapter four. The self internalized.  (pages 87-123)Adam B. Seligman
Chapter five. Tolerance and tradition.  (pages 124-142)Adam B. Seligman
Notes.  (pages 143-158)Adam B. Seligman
Bibliography.  (pages 159-172)Adam B. Seligman
Index.  (pages 173-177)Adam B. Seligman

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