基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1986. Traces the notion of individualism and its effects on politics, history, and intellectual inquiry in the Wetsern world, especially Europe.
Full Description
Louis Dumont's Essays on Individualism is an ambitious attempt to place the modern ideology of individualism in a broad anthropological perspective. The result of twenty years of scholarship and inquiry, the interrelated essays gathered here not only trace the genesis and growth of individualism as the dominant force in Western philosophy, but also analyze the differences between this modern system of thought and those of other, nonmodern cultures. The collection represents an important contribution to Western society's understanding of itself and its place in the world.