Rethinking the Western Understanding of the Self

includes index and biblioraphy

Part 1 Introduction .....1 Chapter 1 The west and the self .....3 Part II Basic of philosophical psychology .....13 Chapter 2 Heideggerian and cartesian self ......15 Chapter 3 Free will .....24 Chapter 4 Cartesian, Lockean, and kantian self .....37 Chapter 5 Extraordinariness and the two stages of rationality .....48 Part III The cartesian self in history .......59 Chapter 6 The caude and comtent of modernity ......61 Chapter 7 The second-stage rationality in history ....71 Chapter 8 Economic rationality .....76 Chapter 9 The cartesian self in the twentieth century .....87 Part IV Value spheres .....95 Chapter 10 A first diagnosis and therapy for modernity ......95 Chapter 11 Value spheres defined and the state ......101 Chapter 12 The serving spheres .....111 Chapter 13 Technology ......114 Chapter 14 Utilitarian or cartesian approach .....127 Chapter 15 The media and the professions ......134 Chapter 16 Science ......138 Chapter 17 Art and religion .....150 Chapter 18 Sport ......158 Chapter 19 Latin and absolute love .....161 Part V A self-understanding not only for the west ......167 Chapter 20 Is the core idea of modernity realizable ar all .....169 Chapter 21 Harnessing extraordinariness .....176 Chapter 22 Cartesian modernity ....187 Chapter 23 The undivided, Universally developed individual ....197 Chapter 24 The end of history ...204