Western Conceptions of the Individual (Paperback, New edition)

This book examines the varying conceptions of the human subject in the western intellectual tradition. It draws on material from all the major intellectual disciplines that have contributed to this tradition - sociology, philosophy, psychology, Marxism, psychoanalysis, sociobiology and anthropology. It offers biographical and theoretical vignettes of all the major western scholars. Each chapter deals with a specific theoretical orientation, with discussions of the psychology of the will, empiricism, neo-Kantianism, Hegelian-Marxism, pragmatism, the sociological tradition, existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism.