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Louis Dumont's Essays on Individualism is an ambitious attempt to place the modern ideology of individualism in a broad anthropological perspective. The result of twenty years of scholarship and inquiry, the interrelated essays gathered here not only trace the genesis and growth of individualism as the dominant force in Western philosophy, but also analyze the differences between this modern system of thought and those of other, nonmodern cultures. The collection represents an important contribution to Western society's ...

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Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective 1992, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226169583

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Essays on Individualism: Modern Ideology in Anthropological Perspective 1986, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL

ISBN-13: 9780226169569

Hardcover