Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Oxford ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987
ISBN 10: 0631157735 ISBN 13: 9780631157731
Da: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
First Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228) and index. Contents: Paradoxes, 1945-85 -- Of Allied victory and the American century -- Of suburbia and the American way of life -- Of education -- Of affluence -- Of pluralistic politics -- Of world power -- Of therapy and humanistic psychology -- Of America as a civilization -- Individualism in Western culture -- Greek social individualism -- Judeo-Christian autonomous individualism -- A tension in citizenship -- The Renaissance, the Reformation, and puritanism -- The commercial spirit -- Science and empiricism -- Romanticism and Darwin -- John Stuart Mill and nineteenth-century liberalism -- Ambiguous legacy for twentieth-century America -- East Asian counterpoint: the shadow of Confucius -- The divergence of West and East -- A morality of relationship -- Eastern and Western ideas of self -- Eastern and Western ideas of the state -- The Japanese encounter with the West -- Society and psyche in modern Japan -- The public, the private, and democracy in East and West -- Public responsibility, order, and law in East Asia -- A different democracy in Japan -- Individualism and the public interest in the 1980s -- Individualism re-reconsidered -- Education for citizenship? -- Public-spirited and laissez-faire utopianism -- A jeffersonian model of citizenship -- Individualism, pluralism, and the leader as broker -- Leadership and ideal right -- Conflict of interest politics -- Decision-making and human nature -- The whole: more than the sum of the parts? -- Deciding on a law of the sea -- A politics of the public interest. Subjects: 1945-1989. Individualism.Self-interest. Individualism United States. individualizmusegyén és társadalomIntérêt personnel.Individualism. Politics and government. Self-interest.Social role United States.Social role United States.Individualism United StatesIndividualism. Self-interest.United States Politics and government 1945-1989.États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1945-1989.United States. USAUnited States Politics and government 1945-1989.United States Politics and government 1945-United States Politics and government 1945-1953.United States Private life & public life Sociological perspectives. United States Private life & public life 3 Kg.
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Oxford ; New York, NY, USA : B. Blackwell, 1987
ISBN 10: 0631157735 ISBN 13: 9780631157731
Da: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Irlanda
Prima edizione
EUR 30,00
Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloFirst Edition. Fine cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xiii, 241 pages ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-228) and index. Contents: Paradoxes, 1945-85 -- Of Allied victory and the American century -- Of suburbia and the American way of life -- Of education -- Of affluence -- Of pluralistic politics -- Of world power -- Of therapy and humanistic psychology -- Of America as a civilization -- Individualism in Western culture -- Greek social individualism -- Judeo-Christian autonomous individualism -- A tension in citizenship -- The Renaissance, the Reformation, and puritanism -- The commercial spirit -- Science and empiricism -- Romanticism and Darwin -- John Stuart Mill and nineteenth-century liberalism -- Ambiguous legacy for twentieth-century America -- East Asian counterpoint: the shadow of Confucius -- The divergence of West and East -- A morality of relationship -- Eastern and Western ideas of self -- Eastern and Western ideas of the state -- The Japanese encounter with the West -- Society and psyche in modern Japan -- The public, the private, and democracy in East and West -- Public responsibility, order, and law in East Asia -- A different democracy in Japan -- Individualism and the public interest in the 1980s -- Individualism re-reconsidered -- Education for citizenship? -- Public-spirited and laissez-faire utopianism -- A jeffersonian model of citizenship -- Individualism, pluralism, and the leader as broker -- Leadership and ideal right -- Conflict of interest politics -- Decision-making and human nature -- The whole: more than the sum of the parts? -- Deciding on a law of the sea -- A politics of the public interest. Subjects: 1945-1989. Individualism.Self-interest. Individualism United States. individualizmusegyén és társadalomIntérêt personnel.Individualism. Politics and government. Self-interest.Social role United States.Social role United States.Individualism United StatesIndividualism. Self-interest.United States Politics and government 1945-1989.États-Unis Politique et gouvernement 1945-1989.United States. USAUnited States Politics and government 1945-1989.United States Politics and government 1945-United States Politics and government 1945-1953.United States Private life & public life Sociological perspectives. United States Private life & public life 1 Kg.