Rethinking the Western understanding of the self [electronic resource] / Ulrich Steinvorth.

The West and the self
Basics of philosophical psychology. Heideggerian and Cartesian self
Free will
Cartesian, Lockean, and Kantian self
Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality
The Cartesian self in history. The cause and content of modernity
The second-stage rationality in history
Economic rationality
The Cartesian self in the twentieth century
Value spheres. A diagnosis and therapy for modernity
Value spheres defined and the state
The serving spheres
Technology
Utilitarian or Cartesian approach
The media and the professions
Science
Art and religion
Sport
Latin and absolute love
A self-understanding not only for the West. Is the core idea of modernity realizable at all?
Harnessing extraordinariness
Cartesian modernity
The undivided, universally developed individual
The end of history?