Authentic Individualism: A Guide for Reclaiming the Best of America's Heritage - Softcover

Brown, Philip R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761801529 ISBN 13: 9780761801528

Publisher: University Press of America, 1996

Synopsis

Drawing from the development of individualism in western philosophy and American history, this book constructs a normative theory called authentic individualism. Using the precepts of that theory, it urges organizational leaders to change the way they think about their organizations and their organizations' social function. Students and scholars of political science, social science, public administration, moral theory and organizational theory will find this a useful work. Contents: Introduction to Individualism; PART ONE: A Model of the Individual from Western Philosophy; The Individual of the Ancients; The Individual of the Dark Ages; The Individual of Modernity; PART TWO: A Model of the Individual in the United States; Rugged Individualism of the Revolutionary U.S.; Rational Individualism After Romanticism and Reform; Radical Individualism from Disillusionment and Loss of Faith; PART THREE: Synthesis of Philosophies Toward a More Socially Responsible Individualist in the Third Millennium; Need for a New World View; Changing the Paradigm; Soul of the Third Administrative State; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

About this title

About the Author

R. Philip Brown is Assistant Attorney General in the Michigan Department of Attorney General.

Review

Provocative...a major contribution to scholarship and the process of moral reasoning. (Dr. Ralph Clark Chandler, Western Michigan University, from the Foreword)

Provocative...a major contribution to scholarship and the process of moral reasoning. (Dr. Ralph Clark Chandler, Western Michigan University, from the Foreword)

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of America
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0761801529
• ISBN 13: 9780761801528
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 264