Why it is good to be good : ethics, Kohut's self psychology, and modern society /
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| Author / Creator: | Riker, John H., 1943- |
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| Imprint: | Lanham, Md. : Jason Aronson, c2010. |
| Description: | xiii, 177 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8141707 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Moral Problem of Modernity
- 2. Kohut's Theory of the Self
- 3. Kohut and the Philosophic Tradition
- 4. A New Metapsychology: Freud, Aristotle, Heidegger, and Kohut
- 5. Why It Is Good to Be Good
- 6. A Self Psychological Vision of Ethical Life
- 7. Self Psychology and Modernity: Actualizing the Self in the Era of Desire
- 8. Social Transformations
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
