Self and soul : a defense of ideals /
Mark Edmundson.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (283 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Polemical introduction: The triumph of self -- Ancient ideals. The hero ; The saint ; The thinker -- Ideals in the modern world. Shakespeare and the early modern self ; The poet ; Freud and the ideal self -- Polemical conclusion: In the culture of the counterfeit.
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Conduct of life. Ideals (Philosophy) Ideology. Self (Philosophy) Soul.