Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition

Rousseau's Theodicy of Self-Love: Evil, Rationality, and the Drive for Recognition

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-296

  Neuhouser, Frederick ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Amour propre; Esteem; Passion; Pride; Recognition; Selfhood; Subjectivity; Vanity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84922011367     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199542673.001.0001     Document Type: Book

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