The Era Of The Individual

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With the publication of French Philosophy of the Sixties, Alain Renaut and Luc Ferry in 1985 launched their famous critique against canonical figures such as Foucault, Derrida, and Lacan, bringing under rigorous scrutiny the entire post-structuralist project that had dominated Western intellectual life for over two decades. Their goal was to defend the accomplishments of liberal democracy, particularly in terms of basic human rights, and to trace the reigning philosophers' distrust of liberalism to an "antihumanism" inherited mainly from Heidegger. In The Era of the Individual, widely hailed as Renaut's magnum opus, the author explores the most salient feature of post-structuralism: the elimination of the human subject. At the root of this thinking lies the belief that humans cannot know or control their basic natures, a premise that led to Heidegger's distrust of an individualistic, capitalist modern society and that allied him briefly with Hitler's National Socialist Party. While acknowledging some of Heidegger's misgivings toward modernity as legitimate, Renaut argues that it is nevertheless wrong to equate modernity with the triumph of individualism. Here he distinguishes between individualism and subjectivity and, by offering a history of the two, powerfully redirects the course of current thinking away from potentially dangerous, reductionist views of humanity. Renaut argues that modern philosophy contains within itself two opposed ways of conceiving the human person. The first, which has its roots in Descartes and Kant, views human beings as subjects capable of arriving at universal moral judgments. The second, stemming from Leibniz, Hegel, and Nietzsche, presents human beings as independent individuals sharing nothing with others. In a careful recounting of this philosophical tradition, Renaut shows the resonances of these traditions in more recent philosophers such as Heidegger and in the social anthropology of Louis Dumont. Renaut's distinction between individualism and subjectivity has become an important issue for young thinkers dissatisfied with the intellectual tradition originating in Nietzsche and Heidegger. Moreover, his proclivity toward the Kantian tradition, combined with his insights into the shortcomings of modernity, will interest anyone concerned about today's shifting cultural attitudes toward liberalism. Originally published in 1997. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Genre : Philosophy
Author : Alain Renaut
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release : 2014-07-14
File : 292 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781400864515


Individual Differences In Cognition And Affects In The Era Of Pandemic And Machine Learning

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Genre : Science
Author : Yang Jiang
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Release : 2022-03-17
File : 199 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9782889747146


Translational Research And Onco Omics Applications In The Era Of Cancer Personal Genomics

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Being a complex disease that affects millions of people world over, cancer research has assumed great significance. Translational cancer research transforms scientific discoveries in the laboratory into clinical application to reduce incidence of cancer, morbidity and mortality. On the other hand, personalized medicine in cancer is the concept that selection of a treatment should be tailored according to the individual patient’s specific genomic characteristics, including mutations, chromosomal aberrations, protein interactions, and SNPs, and even more, taking into account the inmume system, the metabolism and maybe in the next future also the microbiome.

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Genre : Science
Author : Erika Ruiz-Garcia
Publisher : Springer Nature
Release : 2019-11-11
File : 174 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783030241001


International Conference Call For Paper Personal Data Protection In Digital Era

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Protection of privacy information on personal data in Indonesian is still weak. This is suspected from the still abundance of personal data of someone, including for business and political interests. There are still many companies that sell personal data without permission from the subject of data. Misuse of data when it is private that someone's privacy can be obtained by others without the permission of the subject of the data may cause harm to the subject of the data, as also conveyed by Keynote Speaker is Dr. Syahirah Abdul Shukor.

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Publisher : UPT Percetakan dan Penerbitan Polinema
Release : 2018-09-01
File : 300 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9786026695826


Personal Data Privacy And Protection In A Surveillance Era Technologies And Practices

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"This book spans a number of interdependent and emerging topics in the area of legal protection of privacy and technology and explores the new threats that cyberspace poses to the privacy of individuals, as well as the threats that surveillance technologies generate in public spaces and in digital communication"--Provided by publisher.

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Genre : Computers
Author : Akrivopoulou, Christina
Publisher : IGI Global
Release : 2010-11-30
File : 401 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781609600853


The Individual And The State

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Genre : Individualism
Author : Thomas Wardlaw Taylor (jr.)
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Release : 1895
File : 104 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:39015002727025


The New Church Review

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Genre : New Jerusalem Church
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Release : 1895
File : 660 Pages
ISBN-13 : COLUMBIA:0036696757


Personal Memoirs Of U S Grant

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Author : Grant
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Release : 1895
File : 612 Pages
ISBN-13 : UBBS:UBBS-00047523


The Personal Government Of Charles I

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Genre : Great Britain
Author : Samuel Rawson Gardiner
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Release : 1877
File : 440 Pages
ISBN-13 : BSB:BSB11355776


The Era Of The Protestant Revolution

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Genre : Europe
Author : Frederic Seebohm
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Release : 1874
File : 276 Pages
ISBN-13 : NYPL:33433081978953