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BL
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955247
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b709617
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| Main Entry
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Seligman, Adam B.,1954-
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Modernity's wager : : authority, the self, and transcendence /\ Adam B. Seligman.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, ©2000.
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1 online resource (xii, 177 pages)
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| ISBN
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0691050619
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: 1282087045
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: 1400814642
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: 1400824699
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: 9780691050614
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: 9781282087040
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: 9781400814640
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: 9781400824694
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0691050619
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0691116369
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9780691116365
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9780691116365
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-171) and index.
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| Abstract
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Adam Seligman, one of our most important social thinkers, continues the incisive critique of modernity he began in his previously acclaimed The Idea of Civil Society and The Problem of Trust. In this provocative new work of social philosophy, Seligman evaluates modernity's wager, namely, the gambit to liberate the modern individual from external social and religious norms by supplanting them with the rational self as its own moral authority. Yet far from ensuring the freedom of the individual, Seligman argues, "the fundamentalist doctrine of enlightened reason has called into being its own nem.
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Authority.
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Self.
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Transcendence (Philosophy)
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Autorité
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Moi (Psychologie)
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Transcendance (Philosophie)
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Authority.
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PHILOSOPHY-- Ethics Moral Philosophy.
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Self.
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Social Change.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE-- General.
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Social Sciences.
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Sociology Social History.
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Transcendence (Philosophy)
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Gezag.
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Transcendentale filosofie.
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Zelf.
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| Dewey Classification
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303.3/6
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| LC Classification
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HM1251.S45 2000eb
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