Four levels of self-interpretation: A paradigm for interpretive social philosophy and political criticism

Philosophy & Social Criticism

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 691-720

  Rosa, Hartmut ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Charles Taylor; identity; Michael Walzer; political crisis; political criticism; self interpretation; social change; social pathologies; social philosophy; theory and practice

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247665899     PISSN: 01914537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0191453704045761     Document Type: Article

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