The Project of Emancipation and the Possibility of Politics, or, What's Wrong with Post-1968 Individualism?

Thesis Eleven

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 31-45

  Wagner, Peter ^a  

^a EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

emancipation; Enlightenment; individualism; individualization; politics

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247457209     PISSN: 07255136     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0725513602068001003     Document Type: Article

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