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Author |
: Peter Lindsay |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 194 |
Release |
: 1996-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791430553 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791430552 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creative Individualism by : Peter Lindsay
Constructs a cohesive picture of political theorist C. B. Macpherson's democratic vision, arguing that Macpherson's central message regarding the economic prerequisites of democracy is just as relevant today as when he first presented it.
Author |
: Peter Lindsay |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 1996-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791430561 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791430569 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creative Individualism by : Peter Lindsay
Constructs a cohesive picture of political theorist C. B. Macpherson's democratic vision, arguing that Macpherson's central message regarding the economic prerequisites of democracy is just as relevant today as when he first presented it.
Author |
: Robert Dubin |
Publisher |
: Transaction Pub |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1992-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1560000511 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781560000518 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (11 Downloads) |
Synopsis Central Life Interests by : Robert Dubin
Individuals in modern societies move among a variety of social encounters each day. Often contradictory behaviors are required to carry out these interactions. If behaviors and values are inconsistent from one setting to another, is a single self capable of adjusting adequately to such inconsistencies? Or is the total self made up of several selves, capable of effective performance in a complex and contradictory society? This volume addresses these fundamental concerns of social psychology and social organization. Dubin concludes that human beings have evolved socially so that there is an effective match between personality structures of modern persons and the advanced social systems in which they live. Dubin finds that people function competently in most institutions while investing little positive motivation in their performance. They reserve strong motivations for limited, self-chosen central life interests that define their core self. This results in a two-tier structure of living. The first level consists of self-chosen actions and values constituting a central life interest, geared toward self-realization. The second tier encompasses the bulk of social action as required behavior, facilitating institutional functioning, and maintaining social order. In today's modern world the individual occupies a more central position than ever. Modern citizens are freer than in the past to expand their ideas about themselves, encouraged by industrial and commercial institutions, while seeking, in their central life interests, the realization of their creative individualism. For the future, Dubin envisions a social system expanding opportunities for a broader range of central life interests. At the same time, required behaviors will have a more limited range, but will be enforced more rationally and imperatively in the interests of social order. Central Life Interests is an original and perceptive exploration of the linkages between persons and society. It will be of interest to sociologists, psychologists, economists, and administrative scientists.
Author |
: Peter Lindsay Jr. |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 1996-08-08 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781438410920 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1438410921 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creative Individualism by : Peter Lindsay Jr.
Starting with C. B. Macpherson's conception of human nature and working through his idea of a just society, Peter Lindsay constructs a cohesive picture of Macpherson's democratic vision--a task Macpherson himself never undertook. Lindsay argues that Macpherson's central message regarding the importance of economic equality for democracy is as relevant today as it was when first presented. In addition to offering a detailed picture of the economic prerequisites for democracy, Lindsay presents Macpherson's particular brand of liberal democracy as one that offers valuable insights into contemporary democratic and liberal debates. The result is a vision of creative individualism for the post-communist world that combines Macpherson's insistence on social justice with the lessons learned from failed attempts at central planning.
Author |
: Professor of Critical Theory Mari Ruti |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2025-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0231218931 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780231218931 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Creative Self by : Professor of Critical Theory Mari Ruti
"This book proposes creative living as a response to neoliberalism--the instrumentalist, individualistic, opportunistic, and narcissistic ethos that has permeated social life in the West at least since the Second World War. At the level of the individual neoliberalism is reflected in self-optimization, the attempt that many people make to constantly improve their performance and efficiency, especially in the context of their working lives but increasingly in their personal lives as well. In this view the self is assumed to be perfectible, and effort and a positive attitude are all it takes to augment our productivity on every level, thereby becoming happier and more successful. From making "rational" choices about our education-for instance, by choosing law school or business school over a graduate degree in the humanities-to making sure that we eat well, exercise regularly, and marry the right kind of partner, we are optimizing our lives without even necessarily realizing that this is what we are doing. That we have marginalized fields that have historically been associated with creativity rather than with quantifiable "knowledge" says a great deal about our current social priorities. Mari Ruti and Gail Newman present an alternative to this mentality, arguing that psychoanalysis, which almost by definition encourages the flourishing of the creative self, offers a means of combating self-optimization by assisting analysands to find purpose and meaning in their lives and to mobilize their creative potential. No thinkers better characterize this effort than Marion Milner and D. W. Winnicott. Friends who were deeply influenced by each other's work, nothing mattered more to them than the liberation of the individual's creative potentialities. Both Milner's attempt to extract from each day the item, object, moment, or experience that most made her happy or piqued her interest and Winnicott's theorization of the parameters of a true self-the kind of self that is capable of exercising the full range of its creative potentialities-provide us with a blueprint for creative living. Milner and Winnicott define creativity broadly as any activity that brings meaning, substance, or pleasure to the individual's life: not limited to intellectual, artistic, or spiritual achievements, it entails the capacity to build a life that feels worth living. Both recognize that it is a second-order consideration, addressable only after the basics of survival have been attended to; it is at the same time a luxury and a necessity for the psychic, affective, and physical well-being of human beings. This paradox hovers as the backdrop to ontological and existential questions about the contours of human life, such as what the so-called "good life" might entail and what might bring vitality and meaningfulness to individual lives; it resides at the core of creativity. The quest for a rewarding life cannot be separated from the psychic and affective realities of lack, negativity, and nothingness; the creative self is more resilient in the face of adversity because it accepts loss as a necessary component of human life"--
Author |
: Peter McNair Lindsay |
Publisher |
: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada |
Total Pages |
: 472 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0612028003 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780612028005 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (03 Downloads) |
Synopsis Creative Individualism [microform] : the Democratic Vision of C.B. Macpherson by : Peter McNair Lindsay
Author |
: Gordon H. Mills |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 167 |
Release |
: 1965-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292741447 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292741448 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (47 Downloads) |
Synopsis Innocence And Power by : Gordon H. Mills
America believes in individualism—but what is individualism? This question leads into unexpected areas of life and thought. It touches upon almost every intellectual discipline concerned with human life. Any answer, to be taken seriously, must recognize this complexity. A broad understanding of the meaning of individualism can be reached only through the insight of many workers in many different fields. This volume brings together seven of the United States' most distinguished scholars, representing the fields of anthropology, economics, government, history, literature, and philosophy. The trend of their thinking can be suggested by a few excerpts from their essays: • "An individual divorced from a cultural milieu would not be a human being; he would be a mere hominid."—Leslie A. White • "The trouble is that 'individual' is a stop-thought word. It numbs the mind, so that once it has been uttered, inquiry stops."—Clarence E. Ayres • "Not even an individual's perfections are his alone; like his imperfections, they are group-made."— Paul A. Samuelson • "The twentieth century has witnessed the emergence of a new kind of American individualism, the individualism of nonconformity, which actually challenges the compulsive democracy of the Lockean individualism by which the nation has centrally and historically lived."—Louis Hartz • "The individualism of the American frontier was an individualism of personal self-reliance and of hardihood and stamina rather than an individualism of intellectual independence and personal self-expression."—David M. Potter • "The present conditions in which the self must be preserved are radically different from those of a generation, even a decade ago. . . . The dogmatics of present self-assertion are defined and pursued in an existential circumstance."—Frederick J. Hoffman • "Individuality means creativity, and 'laws of creativity,' other than statistical ones, are, I hold, a contradiction in terms."—Charles Hartshorne
Author |
: Antje Czudaj |
Publisher |
: transcript Verlag |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2016-02-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783839433690 |
ISBN-13 |
: 383943369X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis Miranda July's Intermedial Art by : Antje Czudaj
This first in-depth study of Miranda July's work reveals some of its major motives and consequently provides fascinating insights into the lifestyle of the contemporary white Californian middle class. Through an analysis of July's award-winning intermedial work, the author lays open how July takes individualism and self-help as constitutive for the creative class. Although a member of the creative class herself, July's voice oscillates between irony and approval. July thus paints a fascinating portrait of neurotic hipsterism, which triggers self-reflection in the general reader and critical thinking in the cultural analyst.
Author |
: Jack Turner |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 217 |
Release |
: 2012-09-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226817149 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226817148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Awakening to Race by : Jack Turner
The election of America’s first black president has led many to believe that race is no longer a real obstacle to success and that remaining racial inequality stems largely from the failure of minority groups to take personal responsibility for seeking out opportunities. Often this argument is made in the name of the long tradition of self-reliance and American individualism. In Awakening to Race, Jack Turner upends this view, arguing that it expresses not a deep commitment to the values of individualism, but a narrow understanding of them. Drawing on the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Ellison, and James Baldwin, Turner offers an original reconstruction of democratic individualism in American thought. All these thinkers, he shows, held that personal responsibility entails a refusal to be complicit in injustice and a duty to combat the conditions and structures that support it. At a time when individualism is invoked as a reason for inaction, Turner makes the individualist tradition the basis of a bold and impassioned case for race consciousness—consciousness of the ways that race continues to constrain opportunity in America. Turner’s “new individualism” becomes the grounds for concerted public action against racial injustice.
Author |
: Ayn Rand |
Publisher |
: Ayn Rand Institute Press |
Total Pages |
: 84 |
Release |
: 2021-07-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780996010139 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0996010130 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Anthem by : Ayn Rand
About this Edition This 2021-2022 Digital Student Edition of Ayn Rand's Anthem was created for teachers and students receiving free novels from the Ayn Rand Institute, and includes a historic Q&A with Ayn Rand that cannot be found in any other edition of Anthem. In this Q&A from 1979, Rand responds to questions about Anthem sent to her by a high school classroom. About Anthem Anthem is Ayn Rand’s “hymn to man’s ego.” It is the story of one man’s rebellion against a totalitarian, collectivist society. Equality 7-2521 is a young man who yearns to understand “the Science of Things.” But he lives in a bleak, dystopian future where independent thought is a crime and where science and technology have regressed to primitive levels. All expressions of individualism have been suppressed in the world of Anthem; personal possessions are nonexistent, individual preferences are condemned as sinful and romantic love is forbidden. Obedience to the collective is so deeply ingrained that the very word “I” has been erased from the language. In pursuit of his quest for knowledge, Equality 7-2521 struggles to answer the questions that burn within him — questions that ultimately lead him to uncover the mystery behind his society’s downfall and to find the key to a future of freedom and progress. Anthem anticipates the theme of Rand’s first best seller, The Fountainhead, which she stated as “individualism versus collectivism, not in politics, but in man’s soul.”