By Elie Cohen-Gewerc,Robert A. Stebbins

ISBN-10: 0773541284

ISBN-13: 9780773541283

What does it suggest to be a person and the way can someone exist inside of society? critical rest and Individuality examines the situations within the sleek international that make for person uniqueness, and the function of those stipulations in own and social lifestyles.

"The individual," stated Friedrich Nietzsche, "has continuously needed to fight to maintain from being crushed through the tribe. for those who test it, you can be lonely frequently, and infrequently fearful. yet no cost is just too excessive to pay for the privilege of possessing yourself." Elie Cohen-Gewerc and Robert Stebbins discover the line to discovering that privilege. They method individuality by way of interpreting its dating to freedom and being loose, and by way of defining and elaborating at the thought of rest area. in addition they examine individuality's position in group, citizenship, and globalization. The advanced dating among individuality and alienation is positioned less than the microscope to focus on the damaging facet of being particular, which has antagonistic effects for the person and society.

There are many reviews at the glossy person that centre virtually fullyyt at the individual dealing with his local people and broader society. what's lacking within the literature - and what critical relaxation and Individuality presents - is a wide, finished exam of individuality, fairly because it is rooted in rest and the leisure-like components of work.

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